Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite. Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, Come, my lord, come right in. Dont be afraid. So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. Im thirsty, he said. Please give me some water. She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up. Stand in the doorway of the tent, he told her. If someone comes by and asks you, Is anyone in there? say No. But Jael, Hebers wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. Come, she said, I will show you the man youre looking for. So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead. On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him. Judges 4:17-24 Siseras chariots had been his pride and his confidence. Thus are those disappointed who rest on the creature, like a broken reed, it not only breaks under them, but pierces them with many sorrows. The idol may quickly become a burden, what we were sick for, God can make us sick of. It is probable that Jael really intended kindness to Sisera, but by a Divine impulse she was afterwards led to consider him as the determined enemy of the Lord and of His people, and to destroy him. All our connections with Gods enemies must be broken off, if we would have the Lord for our God, and His people for our people. He that had thought to have destroyed Israel with his many iron chariots, is himself destroyed with one iron nail. Thus the weak things of the world confound the mighty. The Israelites would have prevented much mischief, if they had sooner destroyed the Canaanites, as God commanded and enabled them, but better be wise late, and buy wisdom by experience, than never be wise.
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