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Judges 4
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Deborah and Barak

4After Ehud died, the people of Israel sinned against the LORD again.H1121H3478H3254H6213H7451H5869H3068H164H4191
2So the LORD let them be conquered by Jabin, a Canaanite king who ruled in the city of Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived at Harosheth-of-the-Gentiles.H3068H4376H3027H2985H4428H3667H4427H2674H8269H6635H5516H3427H2800H1471
3Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he ruled the people of Israel with cruelty and violence for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help.H1121H3478H6817H3068H8672H3967H7393H1270H6242H8141H2394H3905H1121H3478
4Now Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet, and she was serving as a judge for the Israelites at that time.H1683H5031H802H3941H8199H3478H6256
5She would sit under a certain palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel would go there for her decisions.H3427H8560H1683H7414H1008H2022H669H1121H3478H5927H4941
6One day she sent for Barak son of Abinoam from the city of Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given you this command: 'Take ten thousand men from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them to Mount Tabor.H7971H7121H1301H1121H42H6943H559H3068H430H3478H6680H3212H4900H2022H8396H3947H6235H505H376H1121H5321H1121H2074
7I will bring Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, to fight you at the Kishon River. He will have his chariots and soldiers, but I will give you victory over him.' "H4900H5158H7028H5516H8269H2985H6635H7393H1995H5414H3027
8Then Barak replied, "I will go if you go with me, but if you don't go with me, I won't go either."H1301H559H3212H1980H3212H3212
9She answered, "All right, I will go with you, but you won't get any credit for the victory, because the LORD will hand Sisera over to a woman." So Deborah set off for Kedesh with Barak.H559H1980H3212H657H1870H1980H8597H3068H4376H5516H3027H802H1683H6965H3212H1301H6943
10Barak called the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and ten thousand men followed him. Deborah went with him.H1301H2199H2074H5321H6943H5927H6235H505H376H7272H1683H5927
11In the meantime Heber the Kenite had set up his tent close to Kedesh near the oak tree at Zaanannim. He had moved away from the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses.H2268H7017H1121H2246H2859H4872H6504H7017H5186H168H436H6815H6943
12When Sisera learned that Barak had gone up to Mount Tabor,H5046H5516H1301H1121H42H5927H2022H8396
13he called out his nine hundred iron chariots and all his men, and sent them from Harosheth-of-the-Gentiles to the Kishon River.H5516H2199H7393H8672H3967H7393H1270H5971H2800H1471H5158H7028
14Then Deborah said to Barak, "Go! The LORD is leading you! Today he has given you victory over Sisera." So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with his ten thousand men.H1683H559H1301H6965H3117H3068H5414H5516H3027H3068H3318H6440H1301H3381H2022H8396H6235H505H376H310
15When Barak attacked with his army, the LORD threw Sisera into confusion together with all his chariots and men. Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.H3068H2000H5516H7393H4264H6310H2719H6440H1301H5516H3381H4818H5127H7272
16Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-of-the-Gentiles, and Sisera's whole army was killed. Not a man was left.H1301H7291H310H7393H4264H2800H1471H4264H5516H5307H6310H2719H259H7604
17Sisera ran away to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because King Jabin of Hazor was at peace with Heber's family.H5516H5127H7272H168H3278H802H2268H7017H7965H2985H4428H2674H1004H2268H7017
18Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Come in, sir; come into my tent. Don't be afraid." So he went in, and she hid him behind a curtain.H3278H3318H7125H5516H559H5493H113H5493H3372H5493H168H3680H8063
19He said to her, "Please give me a drink of water; I'm thirsty." She opened a leather bag of milk, gave him a drink, and hid him again.H559H4592H4325H8248H6770H6605H4997H2461H8248H3680
20Then he told her, "Stand at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you if anyone is here, say no."H559H5975H6607H168H376H935H7592H559H3426H376H3426H559
21Sisera was so tired that he fell sound asleep. Then Jael took a hammer and a tent peg, quietly went up to him, and killed him by driving the peg right through the side of his head and into the ground.H3278H2268H802H3947H3489H168H7760H4718H3027H935H3814H8628H3489H7541H6795H776H7290H5774H4191
22When Barak came looking for Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, "Come here! I'll show you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, and there was Sisera on the ground, dead, with the tent peg through his head.H1301H7291H5516H3278H3318H7125H559H3212H7200H376H1245H935H5516H5307H4191H3489H7541
23That day God gave the Israelites victory over Jabin, the Canaanite king.H430H3665H3117H2985H4428H3667H6440H1121H3478
24They pressed harder and harder against him until they destroyed him.H3027H1121H3478H3212H1980H7186H2985H4428H3667H3772H2985H4428H3667


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