1 Depois da morte de Eúde, os israelitas voltaram a fazer o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor. 2 Por isso, o Senhor os entregou nas mãos de Jabim, rei cananeu de Hazor. O comandante de seu exército era Sísera, que habitava em Harosete-Hagoim. 3 Sísera, que tinha novecentos carros de guerra com rodas de ferro, oprimiu cruelmente os israelitas durante vinte anos. Então o povo pediu socorro ao Senhor.
4 Quem julgava Israel nessa época era Débora, uma profetisa, mulher de Lapidote. 5 Ela costumava sentar-se debaixo da Palmeira de Débora, entre Ramá e Betel, na região montanhosa de Efraim, e os israelitas a procuravam para que ela julgasse suas questões. 6 Certo dia, mandou chamar Baraque, filho de Abinoão, que morava em Quedes, no território de Naftali, e lhe disse: "O Senhor, o Deus de Israel, lhe dá a seguinte ordem: ‘Convoque dez mil guerreiros das tribos de Naftali e Zebulom para irem ao monte Tabor. 7 Eu farei Sísera, comandante do exército de Jabim, ir com seus carros de guerra e guerreiros até o rio Quisom. Ali eu os entregarei em suas mãos’".
8 Baraque disse a Débora: "Só irei se você for comigo; senão, não irei".
9 Débora respondeu: "Está bem, eu irei, mas você não receberá a honra nesta missão, pois o Senhor entregará Sísera nas mãos de uma mulher". Então Débora foi com Baraque a Quedes. 10 Ali, Baraque convocou as tribos de Zebulom e Naftali, e dez mil guerreiros subiram com ele. Débora também o acompanhou.
11 Héber, queneu descendente de Hobabe, cunhado de Moisés, havia se separado dos outros membros de sua tribo e armado suas tendas junto ao carvalho de Zaanim, perto de Quedes.
12 Quando disseram a Sísera que Baraque, filho de Abinoão, havia subido ao monte Tabor, 13 ele mandou trazer seus novecentos carros de guerra com rodas de ferro e todos os seus guerreiros, e eles marcharam de Harosete-Hagoim até o rio Quisom.
14 Então Débora disse a Baraque: "Prepare-se! Este é o dia em que o Senhor entregará Sísera em suas mãos, pois o Senhor marcha adiante de você". Baraque desceu a encosta do monte Tabor à frente de seus dez mil guerreiros para combater. 15 Quando Baraque atacou, o Senhor trouxe pânico sobre os carros de guerra e sobre os soldados de Sísera, que abandonou sua carruagem e fugiu a pé. 16 Baraque perseguiu os carros de guerra e o exército inimigo até Harosete-Hagoim e matou todos os guerreiros de Sísera. Nenhum deles escapou.
17 Enquanto isso, Sísera correu para a tenda de Jael, esposa de Héber, o queneu, pois havia paz entre a família de Héber e Jabim, rei de Hazor. 18 Jael saiu ao encontro de Sísera e disse: "Venha para minha tenda, senhor. Entre; não tenha medo". Ele entrou na tenda de Jael, e ela o cobriu com uma manta.
19 "Por favor, dê-me um pouco de água", disse ele. "Estou com sede." Ela lhe deu leite de uma vasilha de couro e o cobriu novamente.
20 Sísera disse a ela: "Fique à porta da tenda. Se alguém chegar e perguntar se há alguém aqui, diga que não".
21 Mas, quando Sísera, exausto, dormia um sono profundo, Jael, a esposa de Heber, se aproximou silenciosamente com um martelo e uma estaca de tenda na mão e atravessou o crânio dele com a estaca, que ficou presa ao chão. Foi assim que Sísera morreu.
22 Quando Baraque passou por lá à procura de Sísera, Jael saiu ao seu encontro e disse: "Venha! Eu lhe mostrarei o homem que o senhor está procurando". Ele a seguiu até a tenda, onde encontrou o cadáver de Sísera, com o crânio atravessado pela estaca.
23 Naquele dia, o povo de Israel viu Deus derrotar Jabim, o rei cananeu. 24 Dali em diante, os israelitas se fortaleceram cada vez mais contra o rei Jabim, até que o eliminaram por completo.
1 And the sons of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, when Ehud was dead.
2 And LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan who reigned in Hazor, the captain of whose army was Sisera who dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.
4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt 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.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and approach to mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the sons of Naph
7 And I will draw Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, to thee, to the river Kishon, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will deliver him into thy hand.
8 And Barak said to her, If thou will go with me, then I will go, but if thou will not go with me, I will not go.
9 And she said, I will surely go with thee. Notwithstanding, the journey that thou take shall not be for thine honor, for LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10 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.
11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the sons of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
12 And they told 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 Kishon.
14 And Deborah said to Barak, Up, for this is the day in which LORD has delivered Sisera into thy hand. Has not LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15 And LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. And Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth of the Gentiles. And all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. 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 he turned in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
19 And he said to 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 And he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of thee, and says, Is there any man here? that thou shall say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep, so he fainted and died.
22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seek. And he came to her, and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.
24 And the hand of the sons of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.