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Bible Verses About Sisera

17 verses · 2 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

  2. The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

  3. Then the hooves of horses thundered— the mad galloping of his stallions.

  4. ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’

  5. Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

  6. He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.

  7. She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.

  8. At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.

  9. Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’

  10. Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,

  11. ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil— a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’

  12. So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

  13. But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.

  14. the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,

  15. the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,

  16. Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

  17. For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.