12 When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,(A) 13 Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River(B) all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.(C)

14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands.(D) Has not the Lord gone ahead(E) of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him. 15 At Barak’s advance, the Lord routed(F) Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

16 Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera’s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left.(G) 17 Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael,(H) the wife of Heber the Kenite,(I) because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor(J) and the family of Heber the Kenite.

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