Judges 4:5-6

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⁵She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in ^(A)the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. ⁶She sent and summoned ^(B)Barak the son of Abinoam from ^(C)Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount ^(D)Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.

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Judges 5:1-7

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The Song of Deborah and Barak

5 ^(A)Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:

²“That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
that ^(B)the people offered themselves willingly,
bless the Lord!

³“Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;
to the Lord I will sing;
I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁴“Lord, ^(C)when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the region of Edom,
^(D)the earth trembled
    and the heavens dropped,
    yes, the clouds dropped water.
⁵The mountains ^(E)quaked before the Lord,
    ^(F)even Sinai before the Lord,^[a] the God of Israel.

⁶“In the days of ^(G)Shamgar, son of Anath,
    in the days of ^(H)Jael, ^(I)the highways were abandoned,
    and travelers kept to the byways.
⁷The villagers ceased in Israel;
    they ceased to be until I arose;
    I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.