Deborah and Barak defeat Sisera
The prophetess Deborah sent Barak to fight Sisera; God routed the chariots at the Kishon River, and Jael killed the fleeing Sisera.
Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Judges 4:14 (World English Bible)
Deborah judged Israel under a palm tree in the hill country of Ephraim. Barak agreed to lead ten thousand men only if she came too, so she told him the honor would go to a woman. A storm turned the Kishon valley to mud, the chariots bogged down, and Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, who killed him as he slept.
Judges 5, the Song of Deborah, is one of the oldest poems in Scripture.
Places
CanaanBethelRamahMegiddoHazorMount TaborTaanachKishonHarosheth-hagoyimKedeshZaanannimKedesh-naphtali
Dating notes
Rest of 40 years (Judges 5:31). The English edition of Ussher's Annals says Jael killed “Jabin,” but Judges 4:21 names Sisera; Jabin was destroyed afterward (4:24). Ussher overlaps some oppressions and rest periods, counting each rest from the previous deliverance, so that the judges fit the 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1.