Judges 4

New American Standard Bible

Deborah and Barak

4 Then ^(A)the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died. ²So the Lord sold them into the hand of ^(B)Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in ^(C)Harosheth-hagoyim. ³The sons of Israel cried out to the Lord; for he had nine hundred ^(D)iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty years.

⁴Now Deborah, a ^[a]prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. ⁵She used to ^[b]sit under the ^(E)palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went up to her for judgment. ⁶Now she sent word and summoned ^(F)Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, “^[c]The Lord, the God of Israel, has indeed 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. ⁷I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his ^[d]many troops to the river Kishon, and ^(G)I will hand him over to you.’” ⁸Then 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.” ⁹She said, “I will certainly go with you; however, the fame shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, ^(H)for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh. ¹⁰Barak summoned ^(I)Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and ten thousand men went up ^[e]^(J)with him; Deborah also went up with him.

¹¹Now Heber ^(K)the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the ^[f]father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the ^[g]oak in ^(L)Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

¹²Then they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor. ¹³Sisera summoned all his chariots, ^(M)nine hundred iron chariots, and all the people who were with him, from ^(N)Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon. ¹⁴Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day on which the Lord has handed Sisera over to you; ^[h]behold, ^(O)the Lord has gone out before you.” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him. ¹⁵^(P)And the Lord ^[i]routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot. ¹⁶But 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; ^(Q)not even one was left.

¹⁷Now Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. ¹⁸And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a ^[j]rug. ¹⁹^(R)And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a leather bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him. ²⁰And 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.’” ²¹But Jael, Heber’s wife, ^(S)took a tent peg and ^[k]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. ²²And behold, while Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he entered ^[l]with her, and behold, Sisera was lying dead with the tent peg in his temple.

²³So ^(T)God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan on that day before the sons of Israel. ²⁴And the hand of the sons of Israel pressed harder and harder upon Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had eliminated Jabin the king of Canaan.

Footnotes

Judges 4:4 Lit woman prophetess
Judges 4:5 Or live
Judges 4:6 Lit Has the Lord not commanded...?
Judges 4:7 Lit multitude
Judges 4:10 Lit at his feet
Judges 4:11 Another reading is brother-in-law
Judges 4:11 Or terebinth
Judges 4:14 Lit has the Lord not gone...?
Judges 4:15 Lit confused
Judges 4:18 Or blanket
Judges 4:21 Lit put a hammer
Judges 4:22 Lit to

Hebrews 4:1-13

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The Believer’s Rest

4 Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have ^(A)come short of it. ²For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also did; but ^(B)the word ^[a]they heard did not benefit them, because ^[b]they were not united with those who listened with faith. ³For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,

“^(C)As I swore in My anger,
They certainly shall not enter My rest,”

although His works were finished ^(D)from the foundation of the world. ⁴For He has said ^(E)somewhere concerning the seventh day: “^(F)And God ^(G)rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵and again in this passage, “^(H)They certainly shall not enter My rest.” ⁶Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had good news preached to them failed to enter because of ^(I)disobedience, ⁷He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying ^[c]through David after so long a time just ^(J)as has been said before,

“^(K)Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”

⁸For ^(L)if ^[d]Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. ⁹Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. ¹⁰For the one who has entered His rest has himself also ^(M)rested from his works, as ^(N)God did from His. ¹¹Therefore let’s make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same ^(O)example of ^(P)disobedience. ¹²For ^(Q)the word of God is ^(R)living and ^(S)active, and sharper than any two-edged ^(T)sword, even penetrating as far as the division of ^(U)soul and ^(V)spirit, of both joints and marrow, and ^(W)able to ^[e]judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. ¹³And ^(X)there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are ^(Y)open and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom ^[f]we must answer.

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Footnotes

Hebrews 4:2 Lit of hearing
Hebrews 4:2 One early ms it was not united with faith in those who heard
Hebrews 4:7 Or in
Hebrews 4:8 Gr Jesus
Hebrews 4:12 Or discern
Hebrews 4:13 Lit is our word

Judges 5

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The Song of Deborah and Barak

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

²“^(B)For ^[a]the leaders leading in Israel,
For ^(C)the people volunteering,
Bless the Lord!
³Hear, you kings; listen, you dignitaries!
^(D)I myself—to the Lord, I myself will sing,
I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel!
⁴^(E)Lord, when You went out from Seir,
When You marched from the field of Edom,
^(F)The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped,
The clouds also dripped water.
⁵^(G)The mountains ^[b]flowed with water at the presence of the Lord,
^(H)This Sinai, at the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁶“In the days of ^(I)Shamgar the son of Anath,
In the days of ^(J)Jael, the roads ^[c]were deserted,
And travelers went by ^[d]roundabout ways.
⁷The ^[e]peasantry came to an end, they came to an end in Israel,
Until I, Deborah, arose,
Until I arose, a mother in Israel.
⁸^(K)New gods were chosen;
Then war was in the gates.
Not a shield or a spear was seen
Among forty thousand in Israel.
⁹My heart goes out to ^(L)the commanders of Israel,
The volunteers among the people;
Bless the Lord!
¹⁰^(M)You who ride on ^[f]white donkeys,
You who sit on rich carpets,
And you who travel on the road—shout in praise!
¹¹At the sound of those who distribute water among ^(N)the watering places,
There they will recount ^(O)the righteous deeds of the Lord,
The righteous deeds for His ^[g]peasantry in Israel.
Then the people of the Lord went down ^(P)to the gates.

¹²“^(Q)Awake, awake, Deborah;
Awake, awake, ^[h]sing a song!
Arise, Barak, and ^(R)lead away your captives, son of Abinoam.
¹³Then survivors came down to the nobles;
The people of the Lord came down to me as warriors.
¹⁴From Ephraim those whose root is ^(S)in Amalek came down,
Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples;
From Machir commanders came down,
And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of ^[i]office.
¹⁵And the ^[j]princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
As was Issachar, so was Barak;
Into the valley they rushed ^(T)at his ^[k]heels;
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great determinations of heart.
¹⁶Why did you sit among ^(U)the ^[l]sheepfolds,
To hear the piping for the flocks?
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great searchings of heart.
¹⁷^(V)Gilead ^[m]remained across the Jordan;
And why did Dan stay on ships?
Asher sat at the seashore,
And ^[n]remained by its landings.
¹⁸^(W)Zebulun was a people who risked their lives,
And Naphtali too, on the high places of the field.

¹⁹“^(X)The kings came and fought;
Then the kings of Canaan fought
^(Y)At Taanach near the waters of Megiddo;
^(Z)They took no plunder in silver.
²⁰^(AA)The stars fought from heaven,
From their paths they fought against Sisera.
²¹The torrent of Kishon swept them away,
The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
^(AB)My soul, march on with strength!
²²^(AC)Then the horses’ hoofs beat
From the galloping, the galloping of his mighty stallions.
²³‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the Lord,
‘Utterly curse its inhabitants,
^(AD)Because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
To the help of the Lord against the warriors.’

²⁴“^(AE)Most blessed of women is Jael,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
Most blessed is she of women in the tent.
²⁵He asked for water, she gave him milk;
In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
²⁶She reached out her hand for the tent peg,
And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer.
Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head;
And she shattered and pierced his temple.
²⁷Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;
Between her feet he bowed, he fell;
Where he bowed, there he fell ^[o]dead.

²⁸“Out of the window she looked and wailed,
The mother of Sisera through the ^[p]lattice,
‘Why does his chariot delay in coming?
Why do the ^[q]hoofbeats of his chariots delay?’
²⁹Her wise princesses would answer her,
Indeed she repeats her words to herself,
³⁰‘^(AF)Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoils?
A concubine, two concubines for every warrior;
To Sisera a spoil of dyed cloth,
A spoil of dyed cloth embroidered,
Dyed cloth of double embroidery on the ^[r]neck of the plunderer?’
³¹^(AG)May all Your enemies perish in this way, Lord;
^(AH)But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”

And the land was at rest for forty years.

Footnotes

Judges 5:2 Or the hair hanging free in
Judges 5:5 As in MT; LXX quaked
Judges 5:6 Lit had ceased
Judges 5:6 Lit twisting
Judges 5:7 Or rural dwellers
Judges 5:10 Or tawny
Judges 5:11 Or rural dwellers
Judges 5:12 Lit speak
Judges 5:14 Lit a scribe
Judges 5:15 As in ancient versions; MT My princes
Judges 5:15 Lit feet
Judges 5:16 Or saddlebags
Judges 5:17 Or dwelt
Judges 5:17 Or dwelt
Judges 5:27 Lit destroyed
Judges 5:28 Or window
Judges 5:28 Lit steps
Judges 5:30 Lit necks of the spoil

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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¹⁴Therefore, since we have a great ^(A)high priest who has ^(B)passed through the heavens, Jesus ^(C)the Son of God, let’s hold firmly to our ^(D)confession. ¹⁵For we do not have ^(E)a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been ^(F)tempted in all things just as we are, yet ^(G)without sin. ¹⁶Therefore let’s ^(H)approach the throne of grace with ^(I)confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help at the time of our need.

The Perfect High Priest

5 For every high priest ^(J)taken from among men is appointed on behalf of people in ^(K)things pertaining to God, in order to ^(L)offer both gifts and sacrifices ^(M)for sins; ²^[a]^(N)he can deal gently with the ^(O)ignorant and ^(P)misguided, since he himself also is ^[b]^(Q)clothed in weakness; ³and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices ^(R)for sins for himself, ^(S)as well as for the people. ⁴And ^(T)no one takes the honor for himself, but receives it when he is called by God, just ^(U)as Aaron also was.

⁵So too Christ ^(V)did not glorify Himself in becoming a ^(W)high priest, but it was He who ^(X)said to Him,

“^(Y)You are My Son,
Today I have fathered You”;

⁶just as He also says in another passage,

“^(Z)You are a priest forever
According to ^(AA)the order of Melchizedek.”

⁷In the days of ^[c]His humanity, ^[d]^(AB)He offered up both prayers and pleas with ^(AC)loud crying and tears to the One ^(AD)able to save Him ^[e]from death, and He ^[f]was heard because of His ^(AE)devout behavior. ⁸Although He was ^(AF)a Son, He learned ^(AG)obedience from the things which He suffered. ⁹And having been ^(AH)perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him, ¹⁰being designated by God as ^(AI)High Priest according to ^(AJ)the order of Melchizedek.