Judges 4:6-14 ▼

6 She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, |Is it not true that the LORD God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

7 I will bring Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to you at the Kishon River, along with his chariots and huge army. I will hand him over to you.|

8 Barak said to her, |If you go with me, I will go. But if you do not go with me, I will not go.|

9 She said, |I will indeed go with you. But you will not gain fame on the expedition you are undertaking, for the LORD will turn Sisera over to a woman.| Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; Deborah went up with him as well.

11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses' father-in-law. He lived near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

12 When Sisera heard that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

13 he ordered all his chariotry--nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels--and all the troops he had with him to go from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the River Kishon.

14 Deborah said to Barak, |Spring into action, for this is the day the LORD is handing Sisera over to you! Has the LORD not taken the lead?| Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.