Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 4:12

"And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor." — Judges 4:12 (ASV)

They shewed Sisera. —The previous verse has been introduced by way of anticipation, that the reader—who has last heard of the Kenites in the south of Judah (Judges 1:16)—may not be surprised at Judges 4:17 to find them in Naphtali. It is not, therefore, necessary to suppose that the “they” means the Kenites. It may be an impersonal expression (as it is rendered in the Septuagint and Vulgate, “it was told”).