17. Only Sisera escaped. He ran to Heber's camp, because Heber and his family had a peace treaty with the king of Hazor. Sisera went to the tent that belonged to Jael, Heber's wife.
18. She came out to greet him and said, “Come in, sir! Please come on in. Don't be afraid.”After they had gone inside, Sisera lay down, and Jael covered him with a blanket.
19. “Could I have a little water?” he asked. “I'm thirsty.”Jael opened a leather bottle and poured him some milk, then she covered him up again.
20. “Stand at the entrance to the tent,” Sisera told her. “If someone comes by and asks if anyone is inside, tell them ‘No.’ ”
21. Sisera was exhausted and soon fell fast asleep. Jael took a hammer and drove a tent peg through his head into the ground, and he died.
22. Meanwhile, Barak had been following Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “The man you're looking for is inside,” she said. “Come in and I'll show him to you.”They went inside, and there was Sisera—dead and stretched out with a tent peg through his skull.
23. That same day the Israelites defeated the Canaanite King Jabin, and his army was no longer powerful enough to attack the Israelites.
24. Jabin grew weaker while the Israelites kept growing stronger, and at last the Israelites destroyed him.