1 Maar n die dood van Ehud het die kinders van Israel weer gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE.
2 Daarom het die HERE hulle verkoop in die hand van Jabin, die koning van Kana„n, wat in Hasor geregeer het; en sy leërowerste was S¡sera, 'n inwoner van Haroset van die heidene.
3 En die kinders van Israel het die HERE aangeroep; want hy het nege honderd ysterwaens gehad en die kinders van Israel twintig jaar lank swaar verdruk.
4 En Debora, 'n profetes, die vrou van L ppidot, het in die tyd Israel gerig;
5 en sy het gesit onder die palm van Debora, tussen Rama en Bet-el, op die gebergte van Efraim; en die kinders van Israel het na haar opgegaan vir regspraak.
6 Toe laat sy Barak, die seun van Abinoam, uit Kedes in N ftali, roep en sê vir hom: Het die HERE, die God van Israel, nie bevel gegee nie: Gaan, trek na die berg Tabor, en neem tien duisend man van die kinders van N ftali en van die kinders van S,bulon met jou saam?
7 dan sal Ek S¡sera, die leërowerste van Jabin, met sy strydwaens en sy menigte na jou, na die spruit Kison trek, en Ek sal hom in jou hand gee.
8 Maar Barak sê vir haar: As u met my saamtrek, sal ek gaan; maar as u nie met my saamtrek nie, gaan ek nie.
9 Toe sê sy: Ek sal sekerlik met jou saamtrek, maar die eer sal nie joue wees op die pad wat jy sal gaan nie; want die HERE sal S¡sera in die hand van 'n vrou verkoop; en Debora het opgestaan en saam met Barak na Kedes getrek.
10 Daarop het Barak S,bulon en N ftali bymekaargeroep na Kedes toe, en tien duisend man het op sy voetspore opgetrek, en Debora het saam met hom opgetrek.
11 En Heber, die Keniet, het hom afgeskei van Kain, van die kinders van Hobab, die swaer van Moses, en het sy tente opgeslaan tot by die terpentynboom by Saän im, naby Kedes.
12 En toe hulle aan S¡sera berig bring dat Barak, die seun van Abinoam, na die berg Tabor opgetrek het,
13 het S¡sera al sy strydwaens, nege honderd ysterwaens, en al die manskappe wat by hom was, uit Haroset van die heidene na die spruit Kison bymekaargeroep.
14 Daarop sê Debora vir Barak: Maak jou klaar, want dit is die dag waarop die HERE S¡sera in jou hand gee. Trek die HERE nie voor jou uit nie? Toe trek Barak van die berg Tabor af, en tien duisend man agter hom aan.
15 En die HERE het S¡sera met al die waens en die hele leër deur die skerpte van die swaard in verwarring gebring voor Barak uit, en S¡sera het van sy wa afgeklim en te voet gevlug.
16 Maar Barak het die waens en die leër agternagejaag tot by Haroset van die heidene, en die hele leër van S¡sera het deur die skerpte van die swaard geval; daar het selfs nie een oorgebly nie.
17 Toe vlug S¡sera te voet na die tent van Jael, die vrou van Heber, die Keniet; want daar was vrede tussen Jabin, die koning van Hasor, en die huis van Heber, die Keniet.
18 En Jael het uitgegaan S¡sera tegemoet en vir hom gesê: Draai uit, my heer, draai uit na my! Moenie bang wees nie! En hy het na haar uitgedraai, na die tent, en sy het hom met 'n kombers toegemaak.
19 Daarop sê hy vir haar: Gee my tog 'n bietjie water om te drink, want ek het dors; sy maak toe die melksak oop en laat hom daaruit drink en maak hom weer toe.
20 En hy sê vir haar: Gaan staan by die tentdeur, en as iemand kom en jou vra en sê: Is hier iemand? antwoord dan: Nee.
21 Toe neem Jael, die vrou van Heber, 'n tentpen en vat die hamer in haar hand en gaan stilletjies na hom en dryf die pen terwyl hy vas aan die slaap was dwarsdeur die slaap van sy hoof, sodat dit in die grond indring. So het hy dan bewusteloos geword en gesterwe.
22 En kyk, terwyl Barak S¡sera agtervolg, gaan Jael uit hom tegemoet en sê vir hom: Kom, en ek sal u die man wys wat u soek; en toe hy by haar inkom, lê S¡sera daar dood, met die pen deur die slaap van sy hoof!
23 So het God dan op die dag Jabin, die koning van Kana„n, voor die kinders van Israel onderwerp.
24 En die hand van die kinders van Israel het al swaarder gaan druk op Jabin, die koning van Kana„n, totdat hulle Jabin, die koning van Kanaän, uitgeroei het.
1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.
2 And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.
4 Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.
5 (And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)
6 And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7 And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands.
8 And 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 And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10 Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, separating himself from the rest of the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, had put up his tent as far away as the oak-tree in Zaanannim, by Kedesh.
12 And word was given to Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, had gone up to Mount Tabor.
13 So Sisera got together all his war-carriages, nine hundred war-carriages of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles as far as the river Kishon.
14 Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.
15 And the Lord sent fear on Sisera and all his war-carriages and all his army before Barak; and Sisera got down from his war-carriage and went in flight on foot.
16 But Barak went after the war-carriages and the army as far as Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all Sisera's army was put to the sword; not a man got away.
17 But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.
18 And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.
19 Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.
20 And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No.
21 Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.
22 Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.
23 So that day God overcame Jabin, king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.
24 And the power of the children of Israel went on increasing against Jabin, king of Canaan, till he was cut off.