INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 4 This chapter shows how that Israel sinning was delivered into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, by whom they were oppressed twenty years, Jdg 4:1; and that Deborah and Barak consulted together about their deliverance, Jdg 4:4; and that Barak, encouraged by Deborah, gathered some forces and fought Sisera the captain of Jabin's army, whom he met, and obtained a victory over, Jdg 4:10; who fleeing on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber, was received into it, and slain by her while asleep in it, Jdg 4:16; which issued in a complete deliverance of the children of Israel, Jdg 4:23.