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Sisera, Heb. ?????, mentioned in the Book of Judges
Book of Judges

The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times....
 4:2 in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
, was the captain of Jabin
Jabin

Jabin is a Biblical name meaning 'discerner', or 'the wise'. It may refer to:* A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan , whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederacy against Joshua was the crowning act in the conquest of the land ....
's army which was routed and destroyed by the army of Barak
Barak

Barak , Al-Buraq the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, was a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible. He was the commander of the army of Deborah, the prophetess and heroine of the Hebrew Bible....
 on the plain of Esdraelon.

His name is usually regarded as Philistine, Hittite
Hittites

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
 or Hurrian. Some speculated that its origins were Egyptian (Ses-Ra, "servant of Ra
Ra

Ra is an ancient Egyptian Solar deity . By the Fifth dynasty of Egypt he became a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon, with other deities representing other positions of the sun....
").

After all was lost, he fled to the settlement of Heber the Kenite in the plain of Zaanaim
Zaanaim

Zaanaim is a place in northwest of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in Tribe of Naphtali; currently sited in Hulah Valley, Israel. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, "the wife of Heber the Kenites," who had pitched his tent in the "plain [R.V., 'as far as the oak'] of Zaanaim" ....
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Sisera, Heb. ?????, mentioned in the Book of Judges
Book of Judges

The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times....
 4:2 in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
, was the captain of Jabin
Jabin

Jabin is a Biblical name meaning 'discerner', or 'the wise'. It may refer to:* A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan , whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederacy against Joshua was the crowning act in the conquest of the land ....
's army which was routed and destroyed by the army of Barak
Barak

Barak , Al-Buraq the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, was a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible. He was the commander of the army of Deborah, the prophetess and heroine of the Hebrew Bible....
 on the plain of Esdraelon.

His name is usually regarded as Philistine, Hittite
Hittites

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
 or Hurrian. Some speculated that its origins were Egyptian (Ses-Ra, "servant of Ra
Ra

Ra is an ancient Egyptian Solar deity . By the Fifth dynasty of Egypt he became a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon, with other deities representing other positions of the sun....
").

After all was lost, he fled to the settlement of Heber the Kenite in the plain of Zaanaim
Zaanaim

Zaanaim is a place in northwest of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in Tribe of Naphtali; currently sited in Hulah Valley, Israel. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, "the wife of Heber the Kenites," who had pitched his tent in the "plain [R.V., 'as far as the oak'] of Zaanaim" ....
. Jael
Jaël

Ja?l , real name Rahel Krebs, is a singer/songwriter from the band Lunik. She also co-wrote and sang with Delerium on the song After All on their album Chimera , and the song Lost and Found on their album Nuages du Monde ....
, Heber's wife, received him into her tent with apparent hospitality and "gave him milk" "in a lordly dish." Having drunk the refreshing beverage, he lay down and soon sank into the sleep of the weary. While he lay asleep, Jael
Yael

Yael is a character mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of king Jabin....
 crept stealthily up to him and, taking in her hand one of the tent peg
Tent peg

File:Zeltnagel2.jpgA tent peg is a spike, usually with a hook or hole on the top end, typically made from wood, metal, plastic, or composite materials, pushed or driven into the ground for holding a tent to the ground, either directly by attaching to the tent's material, or by connecting to ropes attached to the tent....
s, with a mallet she drove it with such force through his temples that it entered into the ground where he lay, and "at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead." (Judges 5:24) It was because Sisera's mother cried a hundred cries when he did not return home that the shofar
Shofar

A shofar is a horn used for Jewish religious purposes. Shofar-blowing is incorporated in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur....
 is blown for a total of 100 blasts on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.

Sisera in the Midrash

According to the Midrash
Midrash

Midrash is a Hebrew language term referring to the not exact, but comparative method of exegesis of Biblical texts, which is one of four methods cumulatively called Pardes ....
 (Yal?u? Shim'oni on Judges
Book of Judges

The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times....
 iv. 3), Sisera hitherto had conquered every country against which he had fought. His voice was so strong that, when he called loudly, the most solid wall would shake and the wildest animal would fall dead. Deborah
Deborah

Deborah or was a prophetess and the fourth, and the only female, Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the Old Testament . Her story is told twice, in chapters 4 and 5 of Book of Judges....
 was the only one who could withstand his voice and whom it did not cause to stir from her place. Sisera caught fish enough in his beard when bathing in the Kishon
Kishon

The name Kishon may refer to:* Kishon River * Ephraim Kishon ...
 to provision his whole army. According to the same source (lii., end), thirty-one kings followed Sisera merely for the opportunity of drinking, or otherwise using, the waters of Israel. The descendants of Sisera, according to B.Gittin 57b, were teachers of the young in Jerusalem.

See also

Yael
Yael

Yael is a character mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of king Jabin....
 (Jael) Meroz
Meroz

Meroz, Of unknown origin. refugeThought to be a city within the plains of Galilee north of Mt. Tabor in Israel which was cursed by the angel of God in the song of Deborah and Barak; whose inhabitants did not come to help the Israelites in battle against Sisera's army....