1. After Ehud died, the people again did what the Lord said was wrong.
2. So the Lord allowed King Jabin of Canaan to defeat the Israelites. Jabin ruled in a city named Hazor. A man named Sisera was the commander of King Jabin’s army. Sisera lived in a town called Harosheth Haggoyim.
3. Sisera had 900 iron chariots, and he was very cruel to the Israelites for 20 years. So they cried to the Lord for help.
4. There was a woman prophet named Deborah. She was the wife of a man named Lappidoth. She was judge of Israel at that time.