17. Gilead remained on the other side of the Jordan, and why did Dan remain next to the ships? Asher continued on the sea shore and remained in his breaches.
18. Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
19. The kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
20. They fought from the heavens; the stars from their ways fought against Sisera.
21. The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. Tread down, O my soul, with strength.
22. Then were the hoofs of the horses broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
23. Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
24. Blessed above women shall Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, be; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth cream in a lordly dish.
26. She put her hand to the stake, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer, and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
27. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead.