The Sunday School Lesson Deborah: Prophet and Judge by David McGee
Oct 27, 2024
Deborah: Prophet and Judge (34:28)
Referenced Scriptures: Judges 4:1-24; Judges 5:1-31
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Judges 4:1-24
1) The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead.
2) Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3) The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4) Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5) She lived under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6) She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Hasn‘t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7) I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin‘s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.
8) 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.
9) She said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10) Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
11) Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
12) They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
13) Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.
14) Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand; hasn‘t Yahweh gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15) Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
16) But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
17) However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
18) Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don‘t be afraid. He turned in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
19) He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
20) He said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you shall say, No.
21) Then Jael Heber‘s wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
22) Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came to her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
23) So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
24) The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Judges 5:1-31
1) Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2) For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves willingly, Bless you Yahweh.
3) Hear, you kings; give ear, you princes; I, [even] I, will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
4) Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, When you marched out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the sky also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped water.
5) The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
6) In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, The travelers walked through byways.
7) The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
8) They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?
9) My heart is toward the governors of Israel, Who offered themselves willingly among the people: Bless you Yahweh.
10) Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.
11) Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
12) Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.
13) Then came down a remnant of the nobles [and] the people; Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
14) Out of Ephraim [came down] they whose root is in Amalek; After you, Benjamin, among your peoples; Out of Machir came down governors, Out of Zebulun those who handle the marshal‘s staff.
15) The princes of Issachar were with Deborah; As was Issachar, so was Barak; Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben There were great resolves of heart.
16) Why sat you among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.
17) Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, Abode by his creeks.
18) Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death, Naphtali, on the high places of the field.
19) The kings came and fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan. In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: They took no gain of money.
20) From the sky the stars fought, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
21) The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
22) Then did the horse hoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.
23) Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse you bitterly the inhabitants of it, Because they didn‘t come to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh against the mighty.
24) Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25) He asked water, [and] she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
26) She put her hand to the tent-pin, Her right hand to the workmen‘s hammer; With the hammer she struck Sisera, she struck through his head; Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
27) At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28) Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?
29) Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
30) Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
31) So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh: But let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. The land had rest forty years.
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