Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Jael

General references

Bible References

Fled

Job 12:19

“He makes priests walk barefoot,
And He overturns men firmly seated and secure.
Job 18:7

“The vigorous stride will be shortened,
And his own counsel and the scheme [in which he trusted] will bring his downfall.
Job 40:11

“Pour out the overflowings of your wrath,
And look at everyone who is proud and make him low.
Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,
Psalm 107:40

He pours contempt on princes
And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.
Proverbs 29:23

A man’s pride and sense of self-importance will bring him down,
But he who has a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Amos 5:19

It is as if a man runs from a lion [escaping one danger]
And a bear meets him [so he dies anyway],
Or goes home, and leans with his hand against the wall
And a snake bites him.

Jael

Judges 5:6

“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted,
And travelers went by roundabout ways.

General references

Judges 5:24

“Most blessed of women is Jael,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
Most blessed is she of women in the tent.