Judges 4:1-7
Deborah and Barak
aAnd the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died. 2 And the Lord asold them into the hand of bJabin king of Canaan, who reigned in bHazor. The commander of his army was cSisera, who lived in dHarosheth-hagoyim. 3 Then the people of Israel acried out to the Lord for help, for he had b900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. 5 She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in athe hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6 She sent and summoned aBarak the son of Abinoam from bKedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount cTabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun. 7 And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by athe river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, band I will give him into your hand’?”
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