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Deborah
and Barak Deliver from Canaanites |
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| Judges 4:1 |
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Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the
sight of the LORD, after Ehud died. |
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| Judges 4:2 |
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And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin
king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the commander of his army was Sisera,
who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. |
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| Judges 4:3 |
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The sons of Israel cried to the LORD; for he
had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for
twenty years. |
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| Judges 4:4 |
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Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth,
was judging Israel at that time. |
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| Judges 4:5 |
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She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah
between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel
came up to her for judgment. |
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| Judges 4:6 |
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Now she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam
from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, "Behold, the LORD, the God of Israel, has
commanded, 'Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from
the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun. |
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| Judges 4:7 |
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I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander
of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his many troops to the river Kishon, and
I will give him into your hand.'" |
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| Judges 4:8 |
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Then Barak said to her, "If you will go with
me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go." |
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| Judges 4:9 |
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She said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless,
the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the
LORD will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went
with Barak to Kedesh. |
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| Judges 4:10 |
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Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to
Kedesh, and ten thousand men went up with him; Deborah also went up with him. |
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| Judges 4:11 |
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Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from
the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched
his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh. |
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| Judges 4:12 |
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Then they told Sisera that Barak the son of
Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor. |
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| Judges 4:13 |
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Sisera called together all his chariots, nine
hundred iron chariots, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim
to the river Kishon. |
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| Judges 4:14 |
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Deborah said to Barak, "Arise! For this is the
day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hands; tbehold, the LORD has
gone out before you." So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men
following him. |
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| Judges 4:15 |
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The LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots
and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted
from his chariot and fled away on foot. |
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| Judges 4:16 |
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But Barak pursued the chariots and the army
as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the
sword; not even one was left. |
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| Judges 4:17 |
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Now Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of
Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king
of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. |
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| Judges 4:18 |
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Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him,
"Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid." And he turned aside
to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. |
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| Judges 4:19 |
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He said to her, "Please give me a little water
to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a bottle of milk and gave him a drink;
then she covered him. |
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| Judges 4:20 |
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He said to her, "Stand in the doorway of the
tent, and it shall be if anyone comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there
anyone here?' that you shall say, 'No.'" |
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| Judges 4:21 |
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But Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and
seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his
temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted.
So he died. |
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| Judges 4:22 |
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And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came
out to meet him and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are
seeking." And he entered with her, and behold Sisera was lying dead with the tent
peg in his temple. |
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| Judges 4:23 |
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So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of
Canaan before the sons of Israel. |
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| Judges 4:24 |
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The hand of the sons of Israel pressed heavier
and heavier upon Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin the
king of Canaan. |
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