Judges:4-5

mkjv@Judges:4:1 @ And the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD when Ehud was dead.

mkjv@Judges:4:2 @ And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The captain of his host was Sisera who lived in Harosheth of the nations.

mkjv@Judges:4:3 @ And the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron. And he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.

mkjv@Judges:4:4 @ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, judged Israel at that time.

mkjv@Judges:4:5 @ And she lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim. And the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.

mkjv@Judges:4:6 @ And she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun?

mkjv@Judges:4:7 @ And I will draw Sisera to you, the captain of Jabin's army, at the river Kishon, together with his chariots and his multitude. And I will deliver him into your hands.

mkjv@Judges: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.

mkjv@Judges:4:9 @ And she said, I will surely go with you. But the journey that you take shall not be for your honor, for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

mkjv@Judges:4:10 @ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And he went up with ten thousand men at his feet. And Deborah went up with him.

mkjv@Judges:4:11 @ And Heber the Kenite, of the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent toward the plain of Zaanaim, near Kedesh.

mkjv@Judges:4:12 @ And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.

mkjv@Judges:4:13 @ And Sisera gathered all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people with him, from Harosheth of the nations to the river of Kishon.

mkjv@Judges:4:14 @ And 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, and ten thousand men after him.

mkjv@Judges:4:15 @ And the LORD struck Sisera, and all the chariots, and all the army, with the edge of the sword in front of Barak, so that Sisera got down from the chariot and fled on his feet.

mkjv@Judges:4:16 @ But Barak pursued the chariots and after the army, to Harosheth of the nations. And all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.

mkjv@Judges:4:17 @ And Sisera fled 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.

mkjv@Judges:4:18 @ And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in my lord, turn in to me. Do not fear. When he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a rug.

mkjv@Judges:4:19 @ And he said to her, Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink, and covered him.

mkjv@Judges:4:20 @ Again he said to her, Stand [in] the door of the tent, and it shall be when any man comes asking of you, saying, Is there any man here? You shall say, No.

mkjv@Judges:4:21 @ Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a peg of the tent and put a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the peg into his temple, and beat it into the ground. For he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

mkjv@Judges:4:22 @ And behold, as Barak followed Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, Come and I will show you the man whom you seek. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the peg was in his temple.

mkjv@Judges:4:23 @ And on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.

mkjv@Judges:4:24 @ And the hand of the sons of Israel went on, and pressed hard against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

mkjv@Judges:5:1 @ Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

mkjv@Judges:5:2 @ Praise the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

mkjv@Judges:5:3 @ Hear, O, kings. Give ear, O, princes. I, [even] I, will sing to the LORD, I will sing to the LORD God of Israel.

mkjv@Judges:5:4 @ LORD, when You went out of Seir, when You marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

mkjv@Judges:5:5 @ The mountains quaked from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

mkjv@Judges:5:6 @ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were empty, and the travelers walked through crooked ways.

mkjv@Judges:5:7 @ The leaders ceased in Israel, they ceased until I, Deborah, arose; until I arose, a mother in Israel.

mkjv@Judges:5:8 @ They chose new gods; then war [was] in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

mkjv@Judges:5:9 @ My heart [is] toward the lawgivers of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.

mkjv@Judges:5:10 @ Speak, you who ride on white asses, you who sit in judgment and walk by the way.

mkjv@Judges:5:11 @ [Louder] than the voice of the dividers between the watering places, there shall they tell again the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of His leaders in Israel. Then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

mkjv@Judges:5:12 @ Awake, awake, Deborah. Awake, awake, sing a song. Arise, Barak, lead your captivity captive, son of Abinoam.

mkjv@Judges:5:13 @ Then He [made me] tread on the remnant of the nobles among the people. The LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.

mkjv@Judges:5:14 @ Out of Ephraim there was a root of them [against] Amalek; after you, Benjamin, with your peoples. Out of Machir came down commanders, and out of Zebulun came they who handle the pen of the writer.

mkjv@Judges:5:15 @ And the rulers of Issachar [were] with Deborah, even Issachar, and also Barak. He was sent on foot into the valley. There were great thoughts of heart for the divisions of Reuben.

mkjv@Judges:5:16 @ Why did you stay among the sheepfolds to hear the bleating of the flocks? For in the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

mkjv@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead stayed beyond Jordan. And why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the seashore and remained in his havens.

mkjv@Judges:5:18 @ Zebulun and Naphtali were a people who put their lives in danger of death in the high places of the field.

mkjv@Judges:5:19 @ Kings came and fought. Then the kings of Canaan fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no gain of silver.

mkjv@Judges:5:20 @ They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

mkjv@Judges:5:21 @ The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you trampled in strength.

mkjv@Judges:5:22 @ Then did the hooves of horses beat, from the galloping, the galloping of their mighty ones.

mkjv@Judges:5:23 @ Curse Meroz, said the Angel of the LORD; curse the people of it bitterly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

mkjv@Judges:5:24 @ Blessed among women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be. She shall be blessed above women in the tent.

mkjv@Judges:5:25 @ He asked for water, and she gave [him] milk. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

mkjv@Judges:5:26 @ She put her hand to the peg, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; she hammered Sisera; she smashed his head, she pierced and struck through his temple.

mkjv@Judges:5:27 @ He bowed between her feet, he fell, he lay down. Between her feet he bowed; he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

mkjv@Judges:5:28 @ The mother of Sisera looked out a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariot wait?

mkjv@Judges:5:29 @ Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

mkjv@Judges:5:30 @ Do they not find and divide the spoil? A womb, two wombs to a man's head, to Sisera a prize of dyed garments, a prize of embroidered dyed [garments] for the necks of those that take the spoil.

mkjv@Judges:5:31 @ So let all Your enemies perish, O LORD. But let them that love Him be like the sun when He goes forth in His might. And the land had rest forty years.

mkjv@Judges:6:1 @ And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

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