Judges:4

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* And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD , when Ehud was dead . * And the LORD gave them over into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan , that reigned in Hazor ; the captain of whose host was Sisera , who dwelt in Harosheth-goiim . * And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD ; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron ; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel . * Now Deborah , a prophetess , the wife of Lappidoth , she judged Israel at that time . * And she sat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim ; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment . * And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali , and said unto him : 'Hath not the LORD , the God of Israel , commanded , saying : Go and draw toward mount Tabor , and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun ? * And I will draw unto thee to the brook Kishon Sisera , the captain of Jabin 's army , with his chariots and his multitude ; and I will deliver him into thy hand . * And Barak said unto her : 'If thou wilt go with me , then I will go ; but if thou wilt not go with me , I will not go .' * And she said : 'I will surely go with thee ; notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thy honour ; for the LORD will give Sisera over into the hand of a woman .' And Deborah arose , and went with Barak to Kedesh . * And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh ; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet ; and Deborah went up with him . * Now Heber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites , even from the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses , and had pitched his tent as far as Elon-bezaanannim , which is by Kedesh . * And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor . * And Sisera gathered together all his chariots , even nine hundred chariots of iron , and all the people that were with him , from Harosheth-goiim , unto the brook Kishon . * And Deborah said unto Barak : 'Up ; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thy hand ; is not the LORD gone out before thee ?' So Barak went down from mount Tabor , and ten thousand men after him . * And the LORD discomfited Sisera , and all his chariots , and all his host , with the edge of the sword before Barak ; and Sisera alighted from his chariot , and fled away on his feet . * But Barak pursued after the chariots , and after the host , unto Harosheth-goiim ; and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword ; there was not a man left . * Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite ; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite . * And Jael went out to meet Sisera , and said unto him : 'Turn in , my lord , turn in to me ; fear not .' And he turned in unto her into the tent , and she covered him with a rug . * And he said unto her : 'Give me , I pray thee , a little water to drink ; for I am thirsty .' And she opened a bottle of milk , and gave him drink , and covered him . * And he said unto her : 'Stand in the door of the tent , and it shall be , when any man doth come and inquire of thee , and say : Is there any man here ? that thou shalt say : No .' * Then Jael Heber 's wife took a tent-pin , and took a hammer in her hand , and went softly unto him , and smote the pin into his temples , and it pierced through into the ground ; for he was in a deep sleep ; so he swooned and died . * And , behold , as Barak pursued Sisera , Jael came out to meet him , and said unto him : 'Come , and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest .' And he came unto her ; and , behold , Sisera lay dead , and the tent-pin was in his temples . * So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel . * And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan , until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan .

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