Deborah and Barak
After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD. Jer 5:3Lev 26:23-25Jdg 10:6Jdg 2:11Jdg 2:19-20Jdg 3:12Jdg 3:7Jdg 6:1 So 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. Jdg 4:13Jdg 4:16Jos 11:11Sa 12:9Psa 83:9Jdg 10:7Jos 11:10-11Isa 50:1 Then 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. Jdg 1:19Psa 106:42Jdg 3:91Sa 7:8Deu 28:29Deu 28:33Deu 28:47-48Jdg 10:16
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. Exo 15:202Ki 22:14Gal 3:28Luk 2:361Co 11:5Act 21:9Jol 2:28-29Mic 6:4 And 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. Exo 18:191Sa 1:1Deu 17:8-12Exo 18:13Gen 35:8Jer 31:15Jos 16:2Jos 18:22
She 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. Act 13:47Heb 11:32Jdg 8:18Jos 19:32Jos 19:37Jos 21:32Psa 7:61Sa 10:3 And 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.’” 1Ki 18:40Ezk 38:10-16Jdg 5:21Psa 83:9-101Sa 24:101Sa 24:18Exo 14:4Exo 21:13
Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.” Exo 4:10-14Mat 14:30-31
“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, 1Sa 2:302Sa 20:21-22Jdg 2:14Jdg 4:17-22Jdg 5:24-27Jdg 9:542Ch 26:18 where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him. Jdg 5:18Jdg 5:151Sa 25:27Exo 11:8Jdg 4:141Ki 20:11Jdg 4:6
Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law 1of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh. Jdg 1:16Jos 19:33Num 10:29Jos 19:37Exo 3:1Exo 18:1Exo 2:18Jdg 4:6
When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor, Psa 89:12Jer 46:18Jos 19:12Jos 19:34Jdg 4:6 he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon. Jdg 4:2-3Jdg 4:7
Then 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?” 2Sa 5:24Deu 9:3Isa 52:12Psa 68:7-81Sa 9:26Gen 44:4Mic 2:13Gen 19:14
So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him. And 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. Jos 10:10Psa 83:9-102Ch 13:15-172Ki 7:6Heb 11:32Jdg 5:20-21
Then 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. Jas 2:13Rom 2:12Isa 43:17Jos 10:19-20Jos 11:8Lev 26:7-8Psa 104:35Psa 83:9
Jael Kills Sisera
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. Isa 57:21Psa 37:35-36Psa 69:22Amo 5:19-20Jdg 5:24Jdg 5:6Job 12:19-21Job 18:7-12 Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. 2Ki 6:19
Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again. Jdg 5:25-26Jhn 4:71Ki 17:10Gen 24:43Isa 41:17
“Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’” Jos 2:3-52Sa 17:20
But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died. 1Co 1:27Jdg 5:26-27Psa 3:7Jdg 3:211Co 1:191Sa 17:431Sa 17:49-50Jdg 15:15
When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple. 2Sa 17:10-152Sa 17:3
On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. Neh 9:24Psa 18:47Psa 18:391Ch 22:181Co 15:28Heb 11:33Psa 47:3Psa 81:14 And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him. 1Sa 3:12