DEBORAH AS A LEADER

CONTENT

1. Deborah Leads the People to Victory (Judges 4:1-12)

Deborah Leads the People to Victory (Judges 4:1-12)

Ehud was a judge in Israel but after his death the people rebelled against the Lord and so God allowed the Canaanite King Jabin of Hazor to conquer and rule them cruelly for twenty years. The commander of Jabin’s army was Sisera who lived in Harosheth-hagoiim – who had nine hundred chariots of iron.

During this time, Deborah – the wife of Lapidoth, a prophetess was a judge who sits under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in Ephraim, where the people come for judgment.

She summoned Barak the son of Abinoam, from Kadesh in Naptali to take ten thousand soldiers from Naphtali and Zebulun and go to Mount Tabor near River kishon where God will conquer Sisera.

Barak agreed to raise army and to fight if only Deborah, the prophetess would accompany him to battle. Deborah made him realize that the glory of the war would go to a woman if she was to accompany him.

Both Deborah and Barak led the army of Israel against the Canaanites.