This will be relevant later in the narrative, in Judges 4:17. Jael’s dwelling is pictured in relation to a tree, in this case an oak. Jael will function as a twin of Deborah, in stepping in to help because her husband Heber was in a sinful alliance with Jabin. She will not go along with his sin. Instead, she will make her own judgment in favor of the Lord.1
11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.