The Book of Judges 4

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² And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan that reigned in Hazor the captain of whose host was Sisera which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles ⚑

⁵ And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment ⚑

⁶ And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali and said unto him Hath not the LORD 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 ⚑

⁷ And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera the captain of Jabin’s army with his chariots and his multitude and I will deliver him into thine hand ⚑

⁸ And Barak said unto her If thou wilt go with me then I will go but if thou wilt not go with me then I will not go ⚑

⁹ And she said I will surely go with thee notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman And Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh ⚑

¹⁰ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet and Deborah went up with him ⚑

¹¹ Now Heber the Kenite which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses had severed himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim which is by Kedesh ⚑

¹³ And Sisera gathered together all his chariots even nine hundred chariots of iron and all the people that were with him from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon ⚑

¹⁴ And Deborah said unto Barak Up for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand is not the LORD gone out before thee So Barak went down from mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him ⚑

¹⁵ And the LORD discomfited Sisera and all his chariots and all his host with the edge of the sword before Barak so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot and fled away on his feet ⚑

¹⁶ But Barak pursued after the chariots and after the host unto Harosheth of the Gentiles and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword and there was not a man left ⚑

¹⁷ 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 ⚑

¹⁸ And Jael went out to meet Sisera and said unto him Turn in my lord turn in to me fear not And when he had turned in unto her into the tent she covered him with a mantle ⚑

¹⁹ 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 ⚑

²⁰ Again he said unto her Stand in the door of the tent and it shall be when any man doth come and enquire of thee and say Is there any man here that thou shalt say No ⚑

²¹ Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent and took an hammer in her hand and went softly unto him and smote the nail into his temples and fastened it into the ground for he was fast asleep and weary So he died ⚑

²² And behold as Barak pursued Sisera Jael came out to meet him and said unto him Come and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest And when he came into her tent behold Sisera lay dead and the nail was in his temples ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain