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Judges 4 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Deborah
Deborah and Barak Defend Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:1 - When Ehud was dead, the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth Hagoyim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD; for Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he had harshly oppressed the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - Then she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, ‘Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:7 - ‘and against you I will deploy Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude at the River Kishon; and I will deliver him into your hand’?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:8 - And 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10 - And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; he went up with ten thousand men under his command,[fn] and Deborah went up with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:11 - Now Heber the Kenite, of the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent near the terebinth tree at Zaanaim, which is beside Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:12 - And they reported to Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:13 - So Sisera gathered together all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth Hagoyim to the River Kishon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - 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 a man was left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - However, Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; do not fear.” And when he had turned aside with her into the tent, she covered him with a blanket.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - Then he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a jug of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:20 - And he said to her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:21 - Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - And then, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, I will show you the man whom you seek.” And when he went into her tent, there lay Sisera, dead with the peg in his temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:23 - So on that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan in the presence of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24 - And the hand of the children of Israel grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
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