*** Some critics suppose that the prose narrative (Judges iv. 5) has confounded the prophetess Deborah, wife of Lapidoth, with Deborah, nurse of Rachel, who was buried near Bethel, under the “Oak of Weeping” (Gen. xxxv. 8), and consequently place it between Rama and Bethel, in the hill- country of Ephraim. **** In the prose narrative (Judges iv. 2-7) Sisera is stated to have been the general of Jabin: there is nothing incompatible in this statement with the royal dignity elsewhere attributed to Sisera. Harosheth-ha-Goyîm has been identified with the present village of El-Haretîyeh, on the right bank of the Kishon. It would appear that heavy rains had swelled the streams, and thus prevented the chariots from rendering their expected service in the engagement; at all events, the Amorites were routed, and Sisera escaped with the survivors towards Hazor. [Illustration: 275.jpg TELL] Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph in Lortet. The people of Meroz facilitated his retreat, but a Kenite named Jael, the wife of Heber, traitorously killed him with a blow from a hammer while he was in the act of drinking.* * Meroz is the present Marus, between the Lake of Huleh and Safed. I have followed the account given in the song (Judges v. 24-27). According to the prose version (iv. 17-22), Jael slew Sisera while he was asleep with a tent-pin, which she drove into his temple. [The text of Judges v. 24-27 does not seem to warrant the view that he was slain “in the act of drinking,” nor does it seem to conflict with Judges iv. 11.- -Tr.]