
Sisera (died 1285 BC) was a Sherden general of Canaan who was slain at the Battle of Mount Tabor in 1285 BC.
Biography[]
Sisera was born to the Sardinian Sherden people, some of whom had settled in northern Canaan and founded the Nuragic-style city of Harosheth Haggoyim (el-Ahwat). He became a general in the service of King Jabin of Hazor, commanding 900 chariots in the Hazorean army. In 1285 BC, he was defeated by the Israelite generals Deborah and Barak at the Battle of Mount Tabor. Sisera fled to the camp of Heber the Kenite, where the Jewish woman Yael brought him into her tent with apparent hospitality, gave him milk, and had sex with him seven times to exhaust him. As Sisera slept, Yael hammered a tent peg into his skull, killing him.