Devorah and Yael

This episode furnishes us with a mother - Devorah - and a wife - Yael - securing victory for a rag-tag army of irregulars over an army with nine hundred iron chariots in order to indicate that war is ignoble, killing is tragic, but freedom from enemy domination must be nevertheless be achieved. While the women of Israel proclaim life's inherent sanctity and celebrate its inviolate worth, leaving their proverbial tents to counter the threat but never reveling in the enemies' demise, Sisera's mother dreams of more bloodshed and spoils.