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• Heber the KenitePeople

  Heber was a Kenite who appears in Judges 4–5. A descendant of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, he was the husband of Jael, who killed the Canaanite commander Sisera.

• Judges 4Bible

  Judges 4 recounts how, under the oppression of the Canaanite king Jabin and his army commander Sisera, the prophetess and judge Deborah commissions Barak to deliver Israel, and how Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, kills Sisera.

• Judges 5Bible

  Judges 5 is a poem celebrating the victory of Deborah and Barak over Sisera, commander of the Canaanite army. It contrasts the tribes that joined the battle with those that stayed away, praises Jael, and closes by noting that the land had rest for forty years.

• SiseraPeople

  Sisera was the commander of the army of Jabin, the Canaanite king who oppressed Israel during the period of the judges. In Judges 4–5 he is defeated by the Israelite forces led by Deborah and Barak, and while fleeing he is killed by Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite.

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• Genesis 4:18

  And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

• 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 4:21

  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 5:6

  In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

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