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And the sons of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had mightily oppressed the sons of Israel for twenty years.
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And a woman judged Israel at that time, Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth.
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This Deborah dwelt under a palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in Mount Ephraim, and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.
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And she sent and called Barak, the son of Abinoam, out of Kedesh of Naphtali and said unto him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded thee,
saying, Go and draw toward Mount Tabor and take with thee ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun?
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And I will draw Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, unto thee to the river Kishon, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will deliver him into thy hands.
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And 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.
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And
she said, I will surely go with thee, but thy honour shall not be in the way that thou goest; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.
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And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and he went up with ten thousand men on foot, and Deborah went up with him.
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Now Heber, the Kenite, of the sons 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.
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And the news came unto Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, was gone up to Mount Tabor.
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And Sisera gathered together all his chariots,
even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that
were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.