Judges 4:1-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Fourth Judge: Deborah and Barak Versus the Canaanites

4 After Ehud died, once again the people of Israel committed evil in the eyes of the Lord. ² So the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. ³ Again the people of Israel called out to the Lord, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots. He brutally oppressed the people of Israel for twenty years.

⁴ Deborah, a woman, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth,^[a] was judging Israel at that time. ⁵ She would sit under the Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel would come to her for judgment.

⁶ She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, has commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun. ⁷ I will lure Sisera, commander of the army of Jabin, to you at the stream Kishon along with his chariots and his horde, and I will give him into your hand.’”