1 Os filhos de Israel Tornaram a fazer o mal à vista de Jeová, depois da morte de Eúde.
2 Entregou-os Jeová nas mãos de Jabim, rei de Canaã, que reinou em Hazor; o general do seu exército era Sísera, que habitava em Harosete dos Gentios.
3 Clamaram os filhos de Israel a Jeová, porque Jabim tinha novecentos carros de ferro, e por vinte anos oprimia cruelmente os filhos de Israel.
4 Débora, profetisa, mulher de Lapidote, julgava a Israel naquele tempo.
5 Ela se assentava debaixo da palmeira de Débora entre Ramá e Betel na região montanhosa de Efraim; e os filhos de Israel subiam a ter com ela a juízo.
6 Esta mandou chamar a Baraque, filho de Abinoão, de Quedes-Naftali, e lhe disse: Não te ordena Jeová, Deus de Israel: Vai, e marcha para o monte Tabor, e leva contigo dez mil homens dos filhos de Naftali e dos filhos de Zebulom?
7 Atrairei a ti ao rio Quisom Sísera, general das hostes de Jabim, juntamente com os seus carros e com as suas tropas, e to entregarei nas mãos.
8 Disse-lhe Baraque: Se vieres comigo, irei; mas, se não vieres comigo, não irei.
9 Respondeu ela: Certamente irei contigo. Contudo não será tua a glória na expedição em que vais; porque Jeová entregará a Sísera nas mãos duma mulher. Levantou-se Débora e foi com Baraque a Quedes.
10 Baraque convocou a Zebulom e a Naftali em Quedes; subiram dez mil homens após ele; também Débora subiu com ele.
11 Ora Héber, queneu, se tinha separado dos queneus, a saber, dos filhos de Hobabe, sogro de Moisés, e tinha armado as suas tendas até chegar ao terebinto em Zaanim, que está junto a Quedes.
12 Anunciaram a Sísera que Baraque, filho de Abinoão, tinha subido ao monte Tabor.
13 Sísera ajuntou todos os seus carros, novecentos carros de ferro, e todo o povo que estava com ele, desde Harosete dos Gentios até o rio Quisom.
14 Disse Débora a Baraque: Levanta-te, porque este é o dia em que Jeová entregou nas tuas mãos a Sísera: não saiu Jeová diante de ti? Desceu Baraque do monte Tabor e dez mil homens após ele.
15 Diante de Baraque Jeová desbaratou ao fio da espada a Sísera com todos os seus carros e todas as suas hostes; Sísera desceu do seu carro e fugiu a pé.
16 Mas Baraque perseguiu os carros e as hostes até Harosete dos Gentios. Todas as hostes de Sísera caíram ao fio da espada; não escapou nem sequer um só homem.
17 Entretanto Sísera fugiu a pé à tenda da Jael, mulher de Héber, queneu, porque havia paz entre Jabim, rei de Hazor, e a casa de Héber, queneu.
18 Saindo Jael ao encontro de Sísera, disse-lhe: Entra, senhor meu, entra na minha tenda; não temas. Sísera entrou-lhe na tenda, e ela o cobriu com uma coberta.
19 Ele lhe disse: Dá-me de beber um pouco de água, porque estou com sede. Ela abriu um odre de leite, e lhe deu a beber, e o cobriu.
20 Ele lhe disse mais: Põe-te à porta da tenda, e quando alguém vier e te perguntar: Está aqui alguém? responderás: Não.
21 Jael, mulher de Héber, tomou uma estaca da tenda e, levando um martelo na mão, chegou-se a ele mansamente, e cravou-lhe a estaca na fonte, de sorte que penetrou na terra; pois estava num profundo sono e mui exausto. Assim morreu.
22 Eis que, seguindo Baraque a Sísera, saiu-lhe Jael ao encontro, e disse-lhe: Vem, e mostrar-te-ei o homem a quem procuras. Entrou-lhe na tenda; e eis que Sísera jazia morto, e o prego estava encerrado na sua fonte.
23 Naquele dia humilhou Deus a Jabim, rei de Canaã, diante dos filhos de Israel.
24 A mão dos filhos de Israel prevalecia cada vez mais contra Jabim, rei de Canaã, até que de todo o destruíram.
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.