Notes: June 13, 2008 - Judges 4 & 5
Bob Feather June 13th, 2008
Deborah and Barak
- For twenty years Israel was oppressed by King Jabin and the Canaanites (Judges 4:2-3).
- Deborah was a prophetess and a judge (Judges 4:4).
- Barak, commissioned to lead 10,000 soldiers against the Canaanites, refused to go unless Deborah went also (Judges 4:8).
- Although victory was promised to him, Barak’s hesitance cost him credit for the same (Judges 4:9).
- Sisera, the Canaanite captain, fled the battle on foot and took refuge in the tent of Heber (Judges 4:17,11).
- Heber’s wife Jael assassinated Sisera while he slept (Judges 4:21).
- The victory song (Judges 5) gives God the glory for overcoming the Canaanites (verses 1-5), recognizes the sinful state of Israel at the time (6-8), questions the motives of the Israelite tribes which did not come to the battle (12-23), honors Jael for her part (24-27), and concludes with a prayer for absolute victory over all their enemies (31).
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Judges 4:2-3
2And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges 4:4
4And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Judges 4:8
8And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
Judges 4:9
9And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges 4:17,11
11Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
17Howbeit 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.
Judges 4:21
21Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
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