1. Sisera was the commander of the army of Jabin, king of Canaan. Sisera resided in Harosheth-haggoyim, and he used this as his base to attack Israel for twenty years. His army, strengthened by nine hundred iron chariots, was conquered at the swollen river of Kishon near Megiddo under the leadership of Barak and Deborah. When he fled the battlefield, Sisera was killed by the hand of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, in the hill country overlooking the Jordan Valley (Judges 4 and 1 Samuel 12:9). The events of this battle were remembered in the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:19-30) and Psalm 83:9.
2. Sisera was also a forefather of a family of temple servants who returned with Zerubbabel to Palestine following the Babylonian captivity (Ezra 2:53 and Nehemiah 7:55).