Evil in the sight of God - Judges 4

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The Book of Judges
Judges 4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight  of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

Judges 4:2 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. 

Judges 4:3 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.  

Judges 4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth,  she judged Israel at that time. 

Judges 4:5 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. 

Judges 4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son  of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, 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? 

Judges 4:7 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.  

Judges 4:8 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. 

Judges 4:9 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.  

Judges 4:10 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. 

Judges 4:11 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. 

Judges 4:12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son  of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. 

Judges 4:13 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. 

Judges 4:14 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. 

Judges 4:15 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. 

Judges 4:16 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. 

Judges 4:17 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.  

Judges 4:18 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. 

Judges 4:19 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. 

Judges 4:20  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. 

Judges 4:21  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. 

Judges 4:22 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.   

Judges 4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of  Canaan before the children of Israel. 

Judges 4:24 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.  KJV

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