#078 Judges 4-5

Devoted to Scripture

Day 78 of the podcast, reading Judges 4-5 NET, read along at:
https://netbible.org/bible/Judges+4-5/

This is day 78 of our journey.

After the time of Ehud, Israel returns to open rebellion against the Lord and, in response, God turns them over to be oppressed by King Jabin of Hazor. After 20 years of suffering, they cry out to the Lord for deliverance and God does something revolutionary for that day and age...he raises up a faithful woman named Deborah to deliver them. Deborah follows God's direction and calls Barak (of the tribe of Naphtali) to raise up an army that the Lord would use to deliver Israel. Barak agrees but, lacking faith, he states that will only obey the Lord's command if Deborah will come with him into battle. Barak defeats the army and destroys every single soldier, but Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army flees to the tent of an ally, only to be killed by the hand of another woman named Jael. Deborah and Barak then lead the army in a song of praise to the Lord for His victory.

Join me in Judges 4-5 to see a God who delivers his people if only they will call out to him.

Key verses:

Judges 4:21
Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.

Judges 5:31
May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord!But may those who love you shinelike the rising sun at its brightest!” And the land had rest for forty years.

All Scriptures are from the NET.