1Depois da morte de Eúde, mais uma vez os israelitas fizeram o que o SENHOR reprova.2Assim o SENHOR os entregou nas mãos de Jabim, rei de Canaã, que reinava em Hazor. O comandante do seu exército era Sísera, que habitava em Harosete-Hagoim.3Os israelitas clamaram ao SENHOR, porque Jabim, que tinha novecentos carros de ferro, os havia oprimido cruelmente durante vinte anos.4Débora, uma profetisa, mulher de Lapidote, liderava Israel naquela época.5Ela se sentava debaixo da tamareira de Débora, entre Ramá e Betel, nos montes de Efraim, e os israelitas a procuravam, para que ela decidisse as suas questões.6Débora mandou chamar Baraque, filho de Abinoão, de Quedes, em Naftali, e lhe disse: “O SENHOR, o Deus de Israel, ordena a você que reúna dez mil homens de Naftali e Zebulom e vá ao monte Tabor.7Ele fará que Sísera, o comandante do exército de Jabim, vá atacá-lo, com seus carros de guerra e tropas, junto ao rio Quisom, e os entregará em suas mãos”.8Baraque disse a ela: “Se você for comigo, irei; mas, se não for, não irei”.9Respondeu Débora: “Está bem, irei com você. Mas saiba que, por causa do seu modo de agir[1], a honra não será sua; porque o SENHOR entregará Sísera nas mãos de uma mulher”. Então Débora foi a Quedes com Baraque,10onde ele convocou Zebulom e Naftali. Dez mil homens o seguiram, e Débora também foi com ele.11Ora, o queneu Héber se havia separado dos outros queneus, descendentes de Hobabe, sogro de Moisés, e tinha armado sua tenda junto ao carvalho de Zaanim, perto de Quedes.12Quando disseram a Sísera que Baraque, filho de Abinoão, tinha subido o monte Tabor,13Sísera reuniu seus novecentos carros de ferro e todos os seus soldados, de Harosete-Hagoim ao rio Quisom.14E Débora disse também a Baraque: “Vá! Este é o dia em que o SENHOR entregou Sísera em suas mãos. O SENHOR está indo à sua frente!” Então Baraque desceu o monte Tabor, seguido por dez mil homens.15Diante do avanço de Baraque, o SENHOR derrotou Sísera e todos os seus carros de guerra e o seu exército ao fio da espada, e Sísera desceu do seu carro e fugiu a pé.16Baraque perseguiu os carros de guerra e o exército até Harosete-Hagoim. Todo o exército de Sísera caiu ao fio da espada; não sobrou um só homem.17Sísera, porém, fugiu a pé para a tenda de Jael, mulher do queneu Héber, pois havia paz entre Jabim, rei de Hazor, e o clã do queneu Héber.18Jael saiu ao encontro de Sísera e o convidou: “Venha, entre na minha tenda, meu senhor. Não tenha medo!” Ele entrou, e ela o cobriu com um pano.19“Estou com sede”, disse ele. “Por favor, dê-me um pouco de água.” Ela abriu uma vasilha de leite feita de couro, deu-lhe de beber, e tornou a cobri-lo.20E Sísera disse à mulher: “Fique à entrada da tenda. Se alguém passar e perguntar se há alguém aqui, responda que não”.21Entretanto, Jael, mulher de Héber, apanhou uma estaca da tenda e um martelo e aproximou-se silenciosamente enquanto ele, exausto, dormia um sono profundo. E cravou-lhe a estaca na têmpora até penetrar o chão, e ele morreu.22Baraque passou à procura de Sísera, e Jael saiu ao seu encontro. “Venha”, disse ela, “eu mostrarei a você o homem que você está procurando.” E entrando ele na tenda, viu ali caído Sísera, morto, com a estaca atravessada nas têmporas.23Naquele dia, Deus subjugou Jabim, o rei cananeu, perante os israelitas.24E os israelitas atacaram cada vez mais a Jabim, o rei cananeu, até que eles o destruíram.
1And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died. (Jz 2:19)2And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. (Js 11:1; Js 11:10; Jz 2:14; Jz 4:13; Jz 4:16; 1 Sm 12:9; Sl 83:9)3Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years. (Jz 1:19; Jz 3:9; Jz 4:13)4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.5She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. (Js 24:33)6She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun. (Js 19:37; Jz 8:18; Hb 11:32)7And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?” (Jz 3:28; Jz 4:13; Jz 5:21; 1 Rs 18:40; Sl 83:9)8Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”9And she said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh. (Jz 2:14)10And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him. (Jz 5:18)11Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh. (Nm 10:29; Js 19:33; Jz 1:16)12When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,13Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon. (Jz 4:3)14And Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the Lord go out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him. (Dt 9:3; Jz 4:7; 2 Sm 5:24; Sl 68:7; Is 52:12)15And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot. (Js 10:10; Jz 4:23; Sl 83:9)16And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.17But Sisera fled away on foot 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.18And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.19And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. (Jz 5:25)20And he said to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.’”21But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.22And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.23So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel. (Jz 4:15)24And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.