Judges 4:1-7 ▼

1 After Ehud (I will give thanks) died, the Israelites (God prevails) again did evil in the sight of the LORD {YHWH}.

2 So the LORD {YHWH} sold them into the hand of Jabin (whom God observes) king of Canaan (lowland), who reigned in Hazor (castle). The commander of his forces was Sisera (battle array), who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim (woodland) (nations).

3 Then the Israelites (God prevails) cried out to the LORD {YHWH}, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

4 Now Deborah (bee), a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth (torches), was judging Israel (he wrestles with God) at that time.

5 And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah (bee) between Ramah (hill) and Bethel (house of God) in the hill country of Ephraim (doubly fruitful), where the Israelites (God prevails) would go up to her for judgment.

6 She summoned Barak (lightning) son of Abinoam (my father is delight) from Kedesh (holy place) in Naphtali (wrestling) and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God {YHWH Elohe} of Israel (he wrestles with God), is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor (mound), taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun (exalted).

7 And I will draw out Sisera (battle array) the commander of Jabin’s (whom God observes) army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon (winding), and I will deliver him into your hand.’”