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.
23 “Put a curse on Meroz,” says the angel of the Lord,“a curse, a curse on those who live there.They did not come to help the Lord,come as soldiers to fight for him.”