Judges
4:4-9 (NKJV)
[4] Now
Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that
time.
[5] And she
would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the
mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for
judgment.
[6] Then
she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and
said to him, “Has not the Lord God
of Israel commanded, Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with
you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun;
[7] and
against you I will deploy Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his
chariots and his multitude at the River Kishon; and I will deliver him into
your hand’?”
[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!”
[9] So she
said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you
in the journey you are taking, for the Lord will
sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak
to Kedesh.
