²² Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael^(A) went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.^(B)

¹⁰ Then even the bravest soldier, whose heart is like the heart of a lion,^(A) will melt^(B) with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a fighter and that those with him are brave.^(C)

¹¹ “So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba^(D)—as numerous as the sand^(E) on the seashore—be gathered to you, with you yourself leading them into battle. ¹² Then we will attack him wherever he may be found, and we will fall on him as dew settles on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men will be left alive. ¹³ If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley^(F) until not so much as a pebble is left.”

¹⁴ Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice^(G) of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel.”^(H) For the Lord had determined to frustrate^(I) the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster^(J) on Absalom.^(K)

¹⁵ Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have advised them to do so and so.

³ and bring all the people back to you. The death of the man you seek will mean the return of all; all the people will be unharmed.”