Battle of Mount Tabor

1230 BC Jezreel Valley Status: ended Casualties: Sisera's nine hundred chariots; Sisera himself by the hand of Jael

Deborah the prophetess summoned Barak; ten thousand of Naphtali and Zebulun came down from Tabor. The Lord routed Sisera by the Kishon, swept away by an ancient torrent. Sisera fled to the tent of Jael, who drove a tent peg through his temple. Judges 4–5.

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Belligerents

Israel under Deborah & Barak
Jabin of Hazor & Sisera

Casualties

Sisera's nine hundred chariots; Sisera himself by the hand of Jael

Key events

Deborah judges Israel under her palm tree
Barak refuses to go without her: 'the journey shall not be for thy honour'
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera
Sisera flees on foot; Jael gives him milk in a lordly dish, then drives the peg

Aftermath

Forty years of rest. The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) is among the oldest passages of Hebrew poetry — and ends with Sisera's mother watching at the lattice for chariots that never come.

Weapons & matériel

Iron chariots (900) of Sisera
The Kishon's flooded torrent
A tent peg and a hammer

Sources

Judges 4–5

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.