Albert Barnes Commentary Judges 4:7

"And I will draw unto thee, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin`s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thy hand." — Judges 4:7 (ASV)

The brook or stream Kishon (Nahr Mukutta) is so called from its winding course, which is caused by the dead level of the plain of Esdraelon through which it flows. Regarding one of its sources or feeders, it rises in Mount Tabor, and flows nearly due west through the plain, under Mount Carmel, and into the Bay of Acre. In the early or eastern part of its course, before it is fed by the springs on Carmel, it is nothing but a torrent, often dry, but liable to swell very suddenly and dangerously, and to overflow its banks in early spring, after rain or the melting of snow. The ground on the banks of the Kishon near Megiddo (Mujedd’a, see Joshua 12:21) becomes an impassable morass under the same circumstances and would be particularly dangerous to a large number of chariots.