1 Ehudin kuoltua israelilaiset rikkoivat jälleen Herraa vastaan.

2 Siksi Herra antoi heidän joutua Kanaanin kuninkaan Jabinin valtaan. Jabin hallitsi Hasorissa, ja hänellä oli sotapäällikkönään Haroset- Gojimissa asuva Sisera.

3 Jabinilla oli yhdeksänsataa raudoitettua sotavaunua. Kaksikymmentä vuotta hän sorti julmasti israelilaisia, ja he huusivat avukseen Herraa.

4 Israelissa oli siihen aikaan tuomarina naisprofeetta Debora, Lappidotin vaimo.

5 Hänellä oli tapana istua palmun alla Raman ja Betelin välillä Efraimin vuoristossa; sitä palmua kutsuttiin Deboran palmuksi. Israelilaiset tulivat sinne hänen luokseen pyytämään ratkaisua riita-asioihinsa.

10 Barak kutsui sinne koolle Sebulonin ja Naftalin heimot. Näin hän sai mukaansa kymmenentuhatta miestä, ja myös Debora lähti taisteluun hänen kanssaan.

11 Keniläinen Heber oli eronnut muista heimolaisistaan, jotka polveutuivat Mooseksen apesta Hobabista, ja asettunut asumaan Elon-Besaanannimiin Kedesin lähistölle.

12 Kun Sisera sai tiedon, että Barak, Abinoamin poika, oli tullut joukkoineen Taborinvuorelle,

13 hän kutsui koolle omat sotajoukkonsa, raudoitetut sotavaununsa, joita oli yhdeksänsataa, sekä jalkaväkensä, ja lähti Haroset-Gojimista Kisoninpurolle.

15 Hänen hyökätessään Herra saattoi Siseran kaikkine sotavaunuineen ja joukkoineen sekasortoon. Siseran oli hypättävä vaunuistaan ja paettava jalan.

16 Barak ajoi takaa vaunujoukkoja ja jalkaväkeä Haroset-Gojimiin saakka. Siseran koko armeija tuhottiin, eikä siitä jäänyt eloon ainoatakaan miestä.

17 Sisera pakeni jalkaisin keniläisen Heberin vaimon Jaelin teltalle, sillä Hasorin kuninkaan Jabinin ja keniläisen Heberin suvun välillä vallitsi rauha.

21 Sisera oli väsynyt ja vaipui pian sikeään uneen. Silloin Jael, Heberin vaimo, otti telttavaarnan ja nuijan, hiipi Siseran luo ja löi vaarnan hänen ohimoonsa, niin että se meni pään läpi ja tunkeutui maahan asti. Näin Sisera kuoli.

23 Sinä päivänä Herra antoi israelilaisten saavuttaa voiton Jabinista, Kanaanin kuninkaasta.

24 He ahdistivat häntä yhä ankarammin, kunnes viimein saivat hänet surmatuksi.

1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead. 2 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years. 4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time. 5 She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, "Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? 7 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’"

8 Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."

9 She said, "I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand." Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

10 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him. 11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh. 12 They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor. 13 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.

14 Deborah said to Barak, "Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. 15 Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet. 16 But Barak pursued the chariots and 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 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

19 He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty."

She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.

20 He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’"

21 Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg, 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 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." He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples. 23 So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day. 24 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.