Judges Chapter 4

• Judges 4:1
  Judges.
• Judges 4:2
  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, when Ehud was dead.
• Judges 4:3
  The LORD 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 Ge...
• Judges 4:4
  The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
• Judges 4:5
  Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
• Judges 4:6
  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.
• Judges 4:7
  She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the...
• Judges 4:8
  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 ha...
• Judges 4:9
  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.”
• Judges 4:10
  She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for the LORD will sell Sisera into a woman’s ha...
• Judges 4:11
  Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.
• Judges 4:12
  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 a...
• Judges 4:13
  They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.
• Judges 4:14
  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, t...
• Judges 4:15
  Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t the LORD gone out before you?” So Barak ...
• Judges 4:16
  The LORD 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 h...
• Judges 4:17
  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 ma...
• Judges 4:18
  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 hou...
• Judges 4:19
  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 hi...
• Judges 4:20
  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.
• Judges 4:21
  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.’”
• Judges 4:22
  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 t...
• Judges 4:23
  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 be...
• Judges 4:24
  So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
• Judges 4:25
  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.