16 Why did they stay behind with the sheep?To listen to shepherds calling the flocks?Yes, the tribe of Reuben was divided;they could not decide to come.
17 The tribe of Gad stayed east of the Jordan,and the tribe of Dan remained by the ships.The tribe of Asher stayed by the seacoast;they remained along the shore.
18 But the people of Zebulun and Naphtalirisked their lives on the battlefield.
19 At Taanach, by the stream of Megiddo,the kings came and fought;the kings of Canaan fought,but they took no silver away.
20 The stars fought from the sky;as they moved across the sky,they fought against Sisera.
21 A flood in the Kishon swept them away—the onrushing Kishon River.I shall march, march on, with strength!
22 Then the horses came galloping on,stamping the ground with their hoofs.