Study Desk

so the Asheri lived among the Kena‘ani who were living in the land, because they didn't drive them out.

So the territory of the Emori was from the Scorpion Ascent and the Rock upward.

So they called the name of that place Bokhim [crying] and sacrificed there to Adonai .

The anger of Adonai blazed against Isra'el; and he handed them over to pillagers, who plundered them, and to their enemies around them; so that they could no longer resist their enemies.

Whenever they launched an attack, the power of Adonai was against them, so that things turned out badly — just as Adonai had said would happen and had sworn to them. They were in dire distress.

So the anger of Adonai blazed against Isra'el; he said, "Because this nation violates my covenant, which I ordered their fathers to obey; and they don't pay attention to what I say;

So Adonai allowed those nations to remain where they were, without quickly driving them out; he did not hand them over to Y'hoshua.

This was only so that the generations of Isra'el who had previously known nothing of war might learn about it.

So the people of Isra'el lived among the Kena‘ani, Hitti, Emori, P'rizi, Hivi and Y'vusi;

So the land had rest for forty years, until ‘Otni'el the son of K'naz died.

But the people of Isra'el again did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, so Adonai strengthened ‘Eglon the king of Mo'av against Isra'el, because they had done what was evil from Adonai 's perspective.

The hilt too went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly, so that it came out behind.

They waited until they became embarrassed, but he still didn't open the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened them; and there before them lay their master, dead on the ground.

So Adonai handed them over to Yavin king of Kena‘an. He ruled from Hatzor; and the commander of his army was Sisra, who lived in Haroshet-HaGoyim.

So Sisra rallied his chariots, all 900 iron chariots, and all the troops he had with him, from Haroshet-HaGoyim to the Kishon River.

D'vorah said to Barak: "Get going! This is the day when Adonai will hand Sisra over to you! Adonai has gone out ahead of you!" So Barak went down from Mount Tavor with 10,000 men following him;

and Adonai threw Sisra, all his chariots and his entire army into a panic before Barak's sword; so that Sisra got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

Ya‘el went out to meet Sisra and said to him, "Come in, my lord; stay here with me; and don't be afraid." So he went into her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

But when he was deeply asleep, Ya‘el the wife of Hever took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, crept in to him quietly and drove the tent peg into his temple, right through to the ground; so that he died without waking up.

So here is Barak pursuing Sisra, and Ya‘el steps out to meet him and says, "Come, I will show you the man you are looking for." He goes into her tent; and there is Sisra, lying dead with the tent peg through his temple.