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No King in Israel: The Book of Judges (p.8): Three Women, Two Kinds of Hope


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08/30/2026 Paul Bang

 

Judges 5:1-7


The Song of Deborah and Barak
5 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:

2 “That the leaders took the lead in Israel,

    that the people offered themselves willingly,
    bless the Lord!

3 “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;

    to the Lord I will sing;
    I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

4 “Lord, when you went out from Seir,

    when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled
    and the heavens dropped,
    yes, the clouds dropped water.
5 The mountains quaked before the Lord,
    even Sinai before the Lord,[a] the God of Israel.

6 “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath,

    in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned,
    and travelers kept to the byways.
7 The villagers ceased in Israel;
    they ceased to be until I arose;
    I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

Judges 5:24-31


24 “Most blessed of women be Jael,
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,
    of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
25 He asked for water and she gave him milk;
    she brought him curds in a noble's bowl.
26 She sent her hand to the tent peg
    and her right hand to the workmen's mallet;
she struck Sisera;
    she crushed his head;
    she shattered and pierced his temple.
27 Between her feet
    he sank, he fell, he lay still;
between her feet
    he sank, he fell;
where he sank,
    there he fell—dead.

28 “Out of the window she peered,

    the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
29 Her wisest princesses answer,
    indeed, she answers herself,
30 ‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?—
    A womb or two for every man;
spoil of dyed materials for Sisera,
    spoil of dyed materials embroidered,
    two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’

31 “So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!

    But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.”

And the land had rest for forty years.

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