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Chapter 4
Narrator: Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth is sitting between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim and you see people come to her for decisions. As you can see here she is about to summon Barak who is the son of Abinoam of Kedesh in Naphtali.
Deborah: The Lord the God of Israel has commanded, Go! March up to Mount Tabor and take with you 10,000 men of Naphtali and Zebulun. And I will draw Sisera, Jabin’s army commander with his chariots and his troops, toward you up to the Wadi Kishon and I will deliver him into your hands.
Barak: If you will go with me, I will go, if not I will not go.
Deborah: Very well, I will go with you. However there will be no glory for you in the course you are taking for then the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.
Narrator: Deborah and Barak went to Kedesh together. Barak mustered Zebulum and Naphtali at Kedesh and 10,000 men marched up after him. Heber and the Kenite separated from the other Kenites descendants of Hobab who just happened to be the father in law to Moses and just pitched his tent at Elon-bezaanannim which just also happens to be near Kedesh. Sisera was informed that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up Mout Tabor which made Sisera order all 900 iron chariots and all of his troops moved from Harosheth to the Wadi Kishon.
Deborah: Up! This is the day on which the Lord will deliver Sisera into your hands the Lord is marching before you.
Narrator: As soon as this happens Barak charges down Mount Tabor as all 10,000 men come charging after him as Hashem threw Sisera and all of his chariots and armies into a panic before the onslaught of Barak. Sisera leaped from his chariot and fled down on foot as Barak pursued the chariots and the soliders as far as Harosheth. All of Sisera’s soilders fell by the sword and there were no men left. Meanwhile Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael.
Jael: Come in my lord, come in here, don’t be afraid!
Sisera: Please let me have some water, I am thirsty.
Heber opens some skim milk and gives him the cup filled with it
Sisera: Stand at the entrance of the tent. If anyone comes and asks you if anyone is here you tell them no!
Jael takes the tent and pin and grasped the mallet. When Sisera falls asleep she takes the pin and shoves it through his head until he is dead.
---THE NEXT DAY---
Jael: Come I will show you the man you are looking for.
They all go inside and see Sisera lying dead on the ground.
Narrator: On that day Hashem subdued King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites. The hand of the Israelites bore harder and harder on King Jabin of Canaan until they destroyed King Jabin of Canaan.
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