However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
"Evidently, the Canaanites had not oppressed the nomadic Kenites who had moved into their territory from the south, and, since the Kenites had not taken part in the muster of Israel's forces at Mount Tabor, Sisera, from these facts, had reason to believe that he would be SAFE, if he reached the tent of Heber."[20]