Person
Heber
the Kenite
Kenite who had separated from his clan and made peace with Hazor, whose wife Jael killed the Canaanite general Sisera in Judges 4–5.
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was a descendant of Hobab the father-in-law of and belonged to the people, a nomadic group allied with Israel. He had separated from the main body of Kenites and pitched his tent near Kedesh in the north of , where he had made peace with Jabin king of . This alliance made his camp a place where , the commander, fled after his defeat by and . Heber himself plays no active role in the story; it is his wife who drove a tent-peg through Sisera's temples, fulfilling Deborah's prophecy that a woman would gain the glory of the victory.
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