1以笏死後，以色列人又做耶和華視為惡的事。2耶和華把他們交在統治夏瑣的迦南王耶賓手中。耶賓王的將軍叫西西拉，住在夏羅設。3耶賓王擁有九百輛鐵戰車，他殘暴地壓迫以色列人二十年。以色列人向耶和華呼求。4當時做士師的是一位名叫底波拉的女先知，她是拉比多的妻子，5經常坐在以法蓮山區拉瑪和伯特利之間的底波拉棕樹下，審理以色列人的事情。6她派人去拿弗他利的基低斯召來亞比挪庵的兒子巴拉，對他說：「以色列的上帝耶和華命你率領一萬拿弗他利人和西布倫人上他泊山。7祂必使耶賓的將軍西西拉率領全軍和戰車到基順河與你交戰，祂必把西西拉交在你手中。」8巴拉回答說：「你跟我去，我就去；你不跟我去，我就不去。」9底波拉說：「好，我一定與你同去。不過，你這次出征一定得不到榮耀，因為耶和華要把西西拉交在一名婦人手上。」於是，他們一同前往基低斯。10巴拉招聚了一萬名拿弗他利人和西布倫人，底波拉與他一起出征。11摩西的岳父何巴的後人基尼人希百離開自己的族人，在基低斯附近撒拿音的橡樹旁搭帳篷居住。12西西拉得知亞比挪庵的兒子巴拉已經上了他泊山，13便召集全軍和九百輛鐵戰車離開夏羅設，向基順河進軍。14底波拉對巴拉說：「出擊吧！今天耶和華要把西西拉交在你手中。看啊，耶和華已經率先出戰了！」於是，巴拉率領一萬人下了他泊山，15進攻西西拉。耶和華使西西拉的戰車和軍隊驚慌失措，敗在巴拉刀下。西西拉棄車徒步逃跑，16巴拉追擊他的戰車和軍隊，直到夏羅設。西西拉全軍都死於刀下，無一倖免。17只有西西拉一人徒步逃到基尼人希百的妻子雅億的帳篷，因為耶賓王和希百家向來友好。18雅億出來迎接西西拉，對他說：「我主，請進，不用怕！」西西拉便走進帳篷，雅億為他蓋上毯子。19西西拉說：「我口渴，請給我一點水吧。」雅億打開皮袋給他奶喝，然後又給他蓋上毯子。20西西拉又說：「請你守著門口，倘若有人查問，你就說沒人來過這裡。」21西西拉因疲勞過度，沉沉入睡。雅億乘機拿起錘子和一根帳篷的橛子，悄悄地走到他身旁，把橛子釘進他的太陽穴，直插到地裡。西西拉就這樣死了。22巴拉追來了，雅億出來迎接他，對他說：「你找的人在這裡，進來看看吧。」巴拉和她進了帳篷，見西西拉死在那裡，太陽穴上還插著橛子。23那天，上帝使以色列人戰勝了迦南王耶賓。24以色列人越戰越勇，最終消滅了耶賓王。
English Standard Version
Deborah and Barak
1And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.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.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.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.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.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’?”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.10And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.
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