Deborah & Jael
1 And the Israelites continued to do evil in the eyes of the Lord – and Ehud died. 2 And the Lord handed them over to Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor, and the commander of his army was Sisera, and he lived in Harosheth-Goiim. 3 And the Israelites cried out to the Lord – for he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he had oppressed the Israelites mightily for twenty years.
4 And Deborah, a prophet-woman, wife of Lappidoth, she who judged Israel at that time. 5 And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the high country of Ephraim, and the Israelites would come up to her for judgement. 6 And she sent and called to Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh-Naphtali and said to him, “Has not the Lord God of Israel charged you: ‘Go, and draw around you on Mount Tabor and take with you 10,000 men from the Naphtalites and the Zebulunites. 7 And I shall draw down to you at the Kishon Wadi, Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, and his chariots and his force, and I shall give him into your hand.’ 8 And Barak said to her, ‘If you go with me, I will go, and if you do not go with me, I will not go.’ 9 And she said, ‘I will certainly go with you, but it will not be your glory on the way that you are going, for in the hand of a woman the Lord will deliver Sisera.’ And Deborah rose and went with Barak to Kedesh. 10And Barak mustered Zebulun and Naphtali at Kedesh, and he brought up at his hells 10,000 men, and Deborah went up with them.