Judges
Judges 4
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Judges 4 — Scripture text (King James Version)
And the children of again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of king of , that reigned in ; the captain of whose host was , which dwelt in of the . And the children of cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of . And , a prophetess, the wife of , she judged at that time. And she dwelt under the tree of between and in mount : and the children of came up to her for judgment. And she sent and called the son of out of -, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of commanded, saying, Go and draw toward , and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of and of the children of ? And I will draw unto thee to the river , the captain of ’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand. And 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. 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 into the hand of a woman. And arose, and went with to . And called and to ; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and went up with him. Now the , which was of the children of the father in law of , had severed himself from the , and pitched his tent unto the plain of , which is by . And they shewed that the son of was gone up to . And gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from of the unto the river of . And said unto , Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So went down from , and ten thousand men after him. And the LORD discomfited , and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the before ; so that lighted down off his , and fled away his feet. But pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto of the : and all the host of fell upon the edge of the ; and there was not a man left. Howbeit fled away his feet to the tent of the wife of the : for there was peace between the king of and the house of the . And went out to meet , 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. 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. 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. Then ’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. And, behold, as pursued , 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, lay dead, and the nail was in his temples. So God subdued that day the king of before the children of . And the hand of the children of prospered, and prevailed against the king of , until they had destroyed king of .