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Barak and Jael
How Barak and Jael are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Barak and Jael met.
Barak pursued Sisera to Jael's tent, and she showed him the enemy captain already dead. Deborah had told Barak the Lord would sell Sisera "into the hand of a woman".
the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman
Judges 4:9, King James Version
Where they cross: Judges 4:21-22
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Judges 4:9
9And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges 4:21-22
21Then 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.
22And, 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.
King James Version