Additional Content in the Song of Deborah

The Song of Deborah portrays Yahweh using floodwaters and meteorological phenomena to defeat Sisera, whose chariots stuck in flooding river shores (Judg 5). In this passage, Barak chases Sisera’s troops westward to Harosheth-ha-goiim while Sisera abandons his chariot and troops to escape eastward. Tired and thirsty, Sisera spies a woman standing outside her tent—Jael.