Judges 4 — BSB
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Deborah and Barak
4Verse 1After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.Verse 2So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.Verse 3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.Verse 4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.Verse 5And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.Verse 6She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.Verse 7And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”Verse 8Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”Verse 9“I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,Verse 10where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.Verse 11Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law+of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.Verse 12When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,Verse 13he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.Verse 14Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?”So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.Verse 15And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.Verse 16Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.