1 Porém os filhos de Israel tornaram a fazer o que era mau aos olhos do SENHOR, depois de falecer Eúde.
2 E vendeu-os o Senhor na mão de Jabim, rei de Canaã, que reinava em Hazor; e Sísera era o capitão do seu exército, o qual então habitava em Harosete dos gentios.
3 Então os filhos de Israel clamaram ao Senhor, porquanto ele tinha novecentos carros de ferro, e por vinte anos oprimia violentamente os filhos de Israel.
4 E Débora, mulher profetisa, mulher de Lapidote, julgava a Israel naquele tempo.
5 Ela assentava-se debaixo das palmeiras de Débora, entre Ramá e Betel, nas montanhas de Efraim; e os filhos de Israel subiam a ela a juízo.
6 E mandou chamar a Baraque, filho de Abinoão de Quedes de Naftali, e disse-lhe: Porventura o Senhor Deus de Israel não deu ordem, dizendo: Vai, e atrai gente ao monte Tabor, e toma contigo dez mil homens dos filhos de Naftali e dos filhos de Zebulom;
7 E atrairei a ti para o ribeiro de Quisom, a Sísera, capitão do exército de Jabim, com os seus carros, e com a sua multidão; e o darei na tua mão.
8 Então lhe disse Baraque: Se fores comigo, irei; porém, se não fores comigo, não irei.
9 E disse ela: Certamente irei contigo, porém não será tua a honra da jornada que empreenderes; pois à mão de uma mulher o Senhor venderá a Sísera. E Débora se levantou, e partiu com Baraque para Quedes.
10 Então Baraque convocou a Zebulom e a Naftali em Quedes, e subiu com dez mil homens após ele; e Débora subiu com ele.
11 E Héber, queneu, se tinha apartado dos queneus, dos filhos de Hobabe, sogro de Moisés; e tinha estendido as suas tendas até ao carvalho de Zaanaim, que está junto a Quedes,
12 E anunciaram a Sísera que Baraque, filho de Abinoão, tinha subido ao monte Tabor.
13 E Sísera convocou todos os seus carros, novecentos carros de ferro, e todo o povo que estava com ele, desde Harosete dos gentios até ao ribeiro de Quisom.
14 Então disse Débora a Baraque: Levanta-te, porque este é o dia em que o Senhor tem dado a Sísera na tua mão; porventura o Senhor não saiu adiante de ti? Baraque, pois, desceu do monte Tabor, e dez mil homens após ele.
15 E o Senhor derrotou a Sísera, e a todos os seus carros, e a todo o seu exército ao fio da espada, diante de Baraque; e Sísera desceu do carro, e fugiu a pé.
16 E Baraque perseguiu os carros, e o exército, até Harosete dos gentios; e todo o exército de Sísera caiu ao fio da espada, até não ficar um só.
17 Porém Sísera fugiu a pé à tenda de Jael, mulher de Héber, queneu; porquanto havia paz entre Jabim, rei de Hazor, e a casa de Héber, queneu.
18 E Jael saiu ao encontro de Sísera, e disse-lhe: Entra, senhor meu, entra aqui, não temas. Ele entrou na sua tenda, e ela o cobriu com uma coberta.
19 Então ele lhe disse: Dá-me, peço-te, de beber um pouco de água, porque tenho sede. Então ela abriu um odre de leite, e deu-lhe de beber, e o cobriu.
20 E ele lhe disse: Põe-te à porta da tenda; e há de ser que se alguém vier e te perguntar: Há aqui alguém? Responderás então: Não.
21 Então Jael, mulher de Héber, tomou uma estaca da tenda, e lançou mão de um martelo, e chegou-se mansamente a ele, e lhe cravou a estaca na fonte, de sorte que penetrou na terra, estando ele, porém, num profundo sono, e já muito cansado; e assim morreu.
22 E eis que, seguindo Baraque a Sísera, Jael lhe saiu ao encontro, e disse-lhe: Vem, e mostrar-te-ei o homem que buscas. E foi a ela, e eis que Sísera jazia morto, com a estaca na fonte.
23 Assim Deus naquele dia sujeitou a Jabim, rei de Canaã, diante dos filhos de Israel.
24 E continuou a mão dos filhos de Israel a pesar e a endurecer-se sobre Jabim, rei de Canaã; até que exterminaram a Jabim, rei de Canaã.
1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
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 dwelled in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelled under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel 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 Kedeshnaphtali, and said to him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7 And I will draw to you to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin' army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.
8 And Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go: but if you will not go with me, then I will not go.
9 And she said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; 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 to the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
12 And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
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 to the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand: is not the LORD gone out before you? 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, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell on the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
17 However, 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 to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
19 And he said to her, Give me, I pray you, 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 to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you shall say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber' wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly to 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 to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.