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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.

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.

Louder than the sound of archers at the watering-holes will they sound as they retell the righteous acts of Adonai , the righteous acts of his rulers in Isra'el. "Then Adonai 's people marched down to the gates.

Then she took a tent peg in her left hand and a workman's hammer in her right; with the hammer she struck Sisra, pierced his skull, yes, she shattered and crushed his temple.

"Sisra's mother looks out the window; peering out through the lattice she wonders, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why are his horses so slow to return?'

Then the angel of Adonai came and sat under the pistachio tree in ‘Ofrah that belonged to Yo'ash the Avi‘ezri. His son Gid‘on was threshing wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from Midyan.

"Excuse me, sir," answered Gid‘on, "but if Adonai is with us, then why is all this happening to us? And where are all his miracles our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Didn't Adonai bring us up from Egypt?' For now Adonai has abandoned us and handed us over to Midyan."

Then the angel of Adonai reached out with the stick he was holding, touched the meat and matzot, and fire shot up out of the rock and burned up the meat and matzot. Then the angel of Adonai disappeared before his eyes.

Gid‘on took ten of his servants and did what Adonai had told him to do. He didn't do it by day, because he was afraid of the men in his father's household and those from the city, so he did it at night.

But Yo'ash said to all those crowding around him, "You're defending Ba‘al, are you? It's your job to save him? Anyone who defends Ba‘al will be put to death before morning! If he's a god, let him defend himself! After all, somebody destroyed his altar!"

Therefore on that day Gid‘on was given the name Yeruba‘al [let Ba‘al defend], because they said, "Let Ba‘al defend himself against him, since he destroyed his altar."

So he brought the people down to the water, and Adonai said to Gid‘on, "Put to one side everyone who laps up water with his tongue the way a dog does, and put to the other side everyone who gets down on his knees to drink."

So they took the provisions and the shofars of the people; then he sent all the men of Isra'el away, each to his tent. But the three hundred men he kept. The camp of Midyan was in the valley below him.

and after you hear what they are saying, you will have the courage to attack the camp." So with his servant Purah he went down to the outposts of the camp.

His comrade answered, "This can only be the sword of Gid‘on son of Yo'ash, a man of Isra'el. God has given Midyan and all its army into his hands."

When Gid‘on heard the dream and its interpretation, he fell on his knees in worship. Then he returned to the camp of Isra'el and said, "Get up! because Adonai has handed Midyan's army over to you."

Gid‘on's men blew their 300 shofars, and Adonai caused everyone in the camp to attack his comrades; and the enemy fled beyond Beit-Sheetah near Tz'rerah, as far as the border of Avel-M'cholah, by Tabat.

By now Gid‘on and his three hundred men had come to the Yarden and crossed over. They were exhausted but were still pursuing the enemy.

Then he ordered his oldest son, Yeter, "Get up, and kill them!" But the boy didn't draw his sword; being still a boy, he was afraid.