1The sons of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and Ehud died.2So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the nations.3Then the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel with force for twenty years.4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.5She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.6She sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go and deploy on Mount Tabor; take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun'?7Then I will draw Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude, to the river Kishon, and I will give him into your hand."8Barak answered her, "If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."9She said, "I will certainly go with you; however, the road on which you are going will bring you no honor, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.10Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; ten thousand men went up at his command, and Deborah went up with him.11Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim near Kedesh.12When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,13Sisera called out all his chariots—nine hundred iron chariots—and all the troops who were with him from Harosheth of the nations to the river Kishon.14Deborah said to Barak, "Arise, for this is the day on which the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.15The LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword, and Sisera dismounted from his chariot and fled on foot.16Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth of the nations, and the entire army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a single man remained.17Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.18Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.19He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.20Then he said to her, "Stand at the entrance of the tent. If anyone comes and asks you whether a man is here, say 'No.'"21But Jael, the wife of Heber, took a tent peg and a hammer, went quietly to him, and drove the peg into his temple; it went down into the ground while he was lying asleep, and he died.22Just then Barak came pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him and said, "Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking." So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with the peg in his temple.23On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.24The hand of the sons of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.