1Sesudah Ehud meninggal, bangsa Israel kembali melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN.2Maka TUHAN menyerahkan bangsa itu ke tangan Yabin, raja orang Kanaan yang memerintah di kota Hazor. Panglima perangnya bernama Sisera. Dia tinggal di Haroset Hagoyim.3Sisera memiliki sembilan ratus kereta perang dari besi. Dia menindas Israel dengan kejam selama dua puluh tahun. Maka umat Israel pun berteriak meminta tolong kepada TUHAN.4Pada waktu itu, Debora, seorang nabi perempuan, istri Lapidot, menjadi pemimpin bangsa Israel.5Dia biasa duduk di bawah sebuah pohon kurma yang dinamai ‘pohon kurma Debora’, di antara kota Rama dan Betel di perbukitan Efraim. Orang Israel berdatangan membawa perkara mereka kepadanya di sana untuk mendapatkan penyelesaian.6Suatu hari, Debora memanggil Barak anak Abinoam yang tinggal di Kedes di wilayah Naftali. Kata Debora kepadanya, “Inilah perintah TUHAN Allah Israel kepadamu, ‘Pergilah ke gunung Tabor bersama sepuluh ribu orang pasukan dari suku Naftali dan Zebulon!’7TUHAN berjanji, ‘Aku akan membawa Sisera kepadamu di sungai Kison bersama dengan semua kereta dan pasukan Yabin. Di situ Aku akan menyerahkan dia ke tanganmu.’”8Jawab Barak kepada Debora, “Kalau engkau juga pergi, saya akan pergi. Tetapi kalau engkau tidak ikut, saya tidak akan pergi.”9Kata Debora, “Saya akan pergi bersamamu. Tetapi kamu tidak akan mendapat kehormatan dari tugas ini, karena TUHAN akan menyerahkan Sisera ke tangan seorang perempuan.” Lalu pergilah Debora bersama Barak ke Kedes.10Barak mengerahkan orang-orang Zebulon dan Naftali untuk naik ke Kedes. Sepuluh ribu orang berjalan kaki mengikuti dia. Debora juga pergi bersamanya.11Pada waktu itu, ada seorang Keni yang bernama Heber. (Bangsa Keni adalah keturunan Hobab, ayah mertua Musa.) Heber sudah berpisah dari bangsa Keni dan saat itu dia tinggal di sekitar pohon besar di Zaananim, dekat Kedes.12Ketika Sisera mendengar bahwa Barak sudah naik ke gunung Tabor,13dia memerintahkan agar kesembilan ratus kereta perangnya diberangkatkan dari Haroset Hagoyim ke sungai Kison, beserta seluruh pasukannya.14Kata Debora kepada Barak, “Bersiaplah! Hari ini TUHAN sudah menyerahkan Sisera kepadamu! TUHAN sudah maju di depanmu!” Maka Barak memimpin sepuluh ribu orang turun dari gunung Tabor.15Mereka menyerang pasukan Sisera. TUHAN membuat Sisera serta semua pasukan dan pengendara keretanya panik dan menjadi kacau. Sisera turun dari keretanya lalu melarikan diri dengan berjalan kaki.16Barak mengejar kereta-kereta dan pasukan tentara itu di sepanjang jalan sampai ke Haroset Hagoyim. Seluruh pasukan Sisera mati dibunuh. Tidak ada satu pun yang selamat.17Sementara itu, Sisera melarikan diri ke kemah Yael, istri Heber, orang Keni, karena ada hubungan baik antara Raja Yabin dan keluarga Heber.18Yael keluar menyambut Sisera serta berkata kepadanya, “Mari masuk ke kemah saya, Tuan. Silakan masuk dan beristirahatlah di sini. Jangan takut.” Maka Sisera masuk ke kemah Yael. Dia berbaring, dan Yael menutupinya dengan selimut.19Kata Sisera kepada Yael, “Saya haus. Tolong ambilkan sedikit air untuk saya.” Yael pun membuka kantong kulit yang berisi susu, memberinya minum, dan menyelimuti dia kembali.20Kata Sisera kepadanya, “Berdirilah di pintu kemah. Jika ada yang datang dan bertanya kepadamu, ‘Apakah ada laki-laki di sini?’ Jawablah ‘Tidak ada.’”21Sesudah itu Sisera tertidur karena kelelahan. Kemudian Yael mengambil sebatang pasak kemah dan sebuah palu, lalu mendekati Sisera dengan diam-diam. Dia memalu pasak itu ke pelipis kepala Sisera sampai menembus ke tanah. Sisera pun mati.22Ketika Barak datang mengejar Sisera, Yael keluar dari kemah untuk menyambut dia. Katanya, “Mari, saya akan menunjukkan orang yang engkau cari.” Barak masuk ke kemah Yael dan melihat Sisera sudah terbujur mati dengan pasak kemah menancap di pelipis kepalanya.23Demikianlah hari itu Allah menundukkan Yabin, raja Kanaan, di hadapan bangsa Israel.24Sejak saat itu Israel semakin menekan Raja Yabin sampai akhirnya mereka membinasakan dia.
World English Bible (dengan Deuterokanonika)
1The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.2Yahweh 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 Gentiles.3The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.5She 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.6She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?7I 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 hand.’”8Barak 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.”9She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.10Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.11Now 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 as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.12They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.13Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.14Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.15Yahweh 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 his feet.16But 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 man left.17However 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 house of Heber the Kenite.18Jael 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 him with a rug.19He 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.20He 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.’”21Then 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 through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.22Behold, 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 behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.23So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.24The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.