13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and
possessed the city of palm trees.
14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer,
Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a
present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under
his raiment upon his right thigh.
17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon wasa very fat man.
18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the
present.
19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that wereby Gilgal, and said, I have a secret
errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself
alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of hisseat.
21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into
his belly:
22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could
not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and
locked them.
24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the
parlour werelocked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour;
therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord wasfallen down dead on the
earth.
26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto
Seirath.
27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim,
and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the
Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward
Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour;
and there escaped not a man.
30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore
years.
31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men
with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
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 wasSisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of Israel cried unto 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 dwelt 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 unto him,
with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his
chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with
me, thenI will not go.
9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall
not be for thine honour; 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 wasof the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had
severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which isby
Kedesh.
12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, evennine hundred chariots of iron, and all the
people that werewith him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this isthe day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera
into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor,
and ten thousand men after him.
15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all hischariots, and all hishost, with the edge of the
sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off hischariot, and fled away on his feet.
16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and
all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; andthere was not a man left.
17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for
there waspeace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear
not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
19 And he said unto 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 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth
come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went
softly unto 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 unto him, Come,
and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera
lay dead, and the nail wasin 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.
1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, evenI, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praiseto
the LORD God of Israel.
4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth
trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, eventhat Sinai from before the LORD God of
Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied,
and the travellers walked through byways.
7 The inhabitants ofthe villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I
arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods; then waswar in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty
thousand in Israel?
9 My heart istoward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the
people. Bless ye the LORD.
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
11 They that are deliveredfrom the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there
shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, eventhe righteous acts toward the
inhabitantsof his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity
captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD
made me have dominion over the mighty.
14 Out of Ephraim was therea root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy
people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the
writer.
15 And the princes of Issachar werewith Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent
on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there weregreat thoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the
divisions of Reuben there weregreat searchings of heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea
shore, and abode in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali werea people thatjeoparded their lives unto the death in the high
places of the field.
19 The kings came andfought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of
Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou
hast trodden down strength.
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their
mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof;
because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above
women in the tent.
25 He asked water, andshe gave himmilk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the
hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through
his temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed,
there he fell down dead.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his
chariot solong in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30 Have they not sped? have they notdivided the prey; to every man a damsel ortwo; to Sisera
a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework
