Judges 4
King James Version
4 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
2 And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15 And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
17 Howbeit 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.
18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Suci 4
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Debora i Barak
4 Nakon Ehudove smrti, Izraelci su ponovo počeli činiti zlo pred BOGOM. 2 Zato ih je BOG prepustio kanaanskom kralju Jabinu, koji je vladao u gradu Hasoru. Zapovjednik je njegove vojske bio čovjek po imenu Sisera, koji je živio u gradu Harošet Hagojim. 3 Posjedovao je devetsto željeznih bojnih kola. Dvadeset je godina surovo tlačio izraelski narod pa su oni zavapili BOGU za pomoć.
4 U to je vrijeme na čelu Izraela, kao sudac, bila proročica Debora, Lapidotova žena. 5 Živjela je kod Deborine palme, između Rame i Betela u Efrajimovom gorju. Izraelci su dolazili k njoj, a ona je presuđivala u njihovim sporovima.
6 Poslala je po Baraka, Abinoamovog sina, iz Kedeša u Naftalijevoj zemlji. Rekla mu je: »Izraelov ti BOG zapovijeda: ‘Okupi deset tisuća ljudi iz Naftalijevog i Zebulunovog plemena te ih povedi na planinu Tabor. 7 Namamit ću Siseru, zapovjednika Jabinove vojske, na rijeku Kišon. Sukobit ćete se s njim, s njegovim bojnim kolima i vojskom, a ja ću vam osigurati pobjedu.’«
8 Barak je nato rekao Debori: »Ići ću ako ti budeš išla sa mnom. Ako ti ne ideš, ne idem ni ja.«
9 »Svakako idem s tobom«, rekla je Debora. »Ali, znaj, put kojim si krenuo neće te dovesti do slave. BOG će Siseru predati u ruke jednoj ženi.«
Pobjeda nad Jabinom
Tako je Debora krenula s Barakom u Kedeš. 10 Ondje je Barak okupio ljude iz Zebulunovog i Naftalijevog plemena. Deset je tisuća ljudi krenulo za njim, a išla je i Debora.
11 A čovjek po imenu Heber, iz skupine Kenijevaca, potomaka Mojsijevog tasta Hobaba, živio je odvojeno od drugih Kenijevaca. Postavio je svoj šator pokraj hrasta u Saananimu, blizu grada Kedeša.
12 Siseri je dojavljeno da je Barak, Abinoamov sin, otišao na planinu Tabor. 13 Pozvao je svih svojih devetsto željeznih bojnih kola i cijelu vojsku iz Harošet Hagojima te su se okupili na rijeci Kišon.
14 Debora je rekla Baraku: »Ustani! Danas će ti BOG pomoći da pobijediš Siseru. BOG ide ispred tebe.«
Barak je sišao s planine Tabor, a pratilo ga je deset tisuća ljudi. 15 BOG je zastrašio Siseru, bojna kola i vojnike pred Barakovom vojskom. Sisera je sišao sa svojih kola i pobjegao pješice. 16 Barak je progonio bojna kola i vojsku sve do Harošet Hagojima. Cijela je Siserina vojska poginula od mača. Nitko nije preživio.
17 Sisera je pješice pobjegao i sakrio se u šator kod Jaele, žene Kenijevca Hebera. Pošto je između Jabina i Kenijevaca vladao mir, Sisera je mislio kako je siguran kod Jaele.
18 Jaela je izašla ususret Siseri. Rekla mu je: »Gospodaru, dođi u moj šator. Ne boj se!«
Sisera je ušao u njezin šator, a ona ga je pokrila prekrivačem.
19 Sisera je zamoli: »Molim te, daj mi malo vode. Žedan sam.«
Ona je otvorila mijeh[a] s mlijekom i dala mu da pije. Potom ga je ponovo pokrila.
20 »Stani na ulaz u šator«, rekao je. »Ako tko dođe i pita ima li koga u šatoru, ti reci da nema nikoga«.
21 No Heberova žena Jaela uzela je u ruke šatorski klin i čekić. Tiho se prikrala Siseri kad je duboko zaspao od iscrpljenosti. Stavila je klin na njegovu sljepoočnicu i udarila čekićem, tako da se klin zario u zemlju. Sisera je bio mrtav.
22 Tada je naišao Barak u potjeri za Siserom. Jaela mu je izašla ususret. Pozvala ga je: »Uđi da ti pokažem čovjeka kojeg tražiš.«
Ušao je u njezin šator i vidio Siseru kako leži mrtav, s klinom u sljepoočnici.
23 Tog je dana Bog omogućio Izraelcima da nadjačaju kanaanskog kralja Jabina. 24 Izraelci su se sve žešće borili protiv kanaanskoga kralja Jabina, sve dok ga nisu uništili.
Footnotes
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