Deborah
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Oct 28, 2026
Bill SalusGUEST
They ceased to ever oppress Israel again in the future.
Bill SalusGUEST
Now, the similar thing happened with the prophetess Deborah.
Bill SalusGUEST
She had Ehud Barak, which interestingly, the defense minister of Israel today, his name is Ehud Barak.
Bill SalusGUEST
Well, this guy existed centuries ago, but that Ehud Barak defeated Jabin and Sisera and the princes of Ziv and Zalmun, and they're all listed in Psalm 83 and in the Judges episodes.
Mike FilipHOST
After Joshua, Samuel, God gave Israel a series of judges.
Mike FilipHOST
Samson, Gideon, Jephthah, Deborah.
Mike FilipHOST
And they would deliver Israel out of the hand of their enemies.
Mike FilipHOST
Over and over.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
what's going on here let's start with the historical origins of the legend are the 12 tribes of israel even historical in the first place well historians debate this question the evidence suggests early on there were some number of tribes of some sort but the exact number of tribes and what the tribes were actually called differs depending on which biblical text you read For example, Deuteronomy 33, an early text called the blessing of Moses, claims to bless all the tribes of Israel, but leaves out the tribe of Simeon.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
The most striking example though is Judges chapter 5, or the song of Deborah, which many scholars believe is the oldest text in the entire Hebrew Bible.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
This chapter describes a war between the king of Canaan and many of the tribes mentioned by name.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
However, only 10 tribes are mentioned, including a few not mentioned as tribes elsewhere in the Bible, like the tribe of Gilead.
Carl BroggiHOST
whether it's Miriam or the sister of Moses or the four virgin daughters of Philip who are called prophetesses.
Carl BroggiHOST
And I go through every single passage that people use, Deborah, you name it, to justify a woman being a pastor of a local church.
Carl BroggiHOST
You cannot do it.
Carl BroggiHOST
You have to take the verses out of context.
Lynne Hilton WilsonHOST
Now, even though he's bad-mouthing these false prophetesses, I just want to remind you that we have four wonderful prophetesses of Jehovah in the Old Testament who receive that title from the text.
Lynne Hilton WilsonHOST
Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, and Isaiah's wife.
Lynne Hilton WilsonHOST
And then we get to the New Testament, we have even more.
Lynne Hilton WilsonHOST
And we have a different definition of the New Testament because we say the spirit of prophecy is to have a testimony of Jesus.
Yigal LevinGUEST
We know individual names of kings of Edom from Assyrian sources, okay, towards the end of the first temple period and a little bit later, but we don't, and there's a debate among historians about when Edom actually coalesced into a kingdom, but I think that once again, here, what we're seeing is a kind of parallel to Israel's judges.
Yigal LevinGUEST
And remember the judge in the book of Judges, except for one, except for Deborah, were not people who sat in judgment.
Yigal LevinGUEST
Right? Judge there, shofet there means leader.
Yigal LevinGUEST
It doesn't mean, right, judicial authority.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And within that general area, there's several important mountains, not just Har Megiddo or the mountain of Megiddo, but that entire district that would encompass the watch area of Har Megiddo or Armageddon.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And Deborah has been, the battle with Deborah, Sisera, Barak, that's been one of our greatest pattern makers ever.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And so we've spent quite a bit of time going back and forth.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And so where we left off last program in Lesson 7, we're actually looking at some things that the rabbis wrote about these particular mountains.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And so I wanted to go back and just review something that we read last week.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And this is from the Midrash on the Torah portion of Kev.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And it reminds us of the Song of Deborah.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
And it brings in an important mountain, which is the Mount of Olives.
Pitts EvansHOST
Let's get right to the Word of God.
Pitts EvansHOST
Judges chapter 4.
Pitts EvansHOST
Again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Echad was dead.
Pitts EvansHOST
So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor.
Joshua SelmanHOST
Let's look at 19 and 20.
Joshua SelmanHOST
This was Deborah and Sisera.
Joshua SelmanHOST
Judges 5.
Joshua SelmanHOST
The kings came and fought.
HarrietHOST
So the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, for he had nine hundred iron chariots and had harshly oppressed the sons of Israel for twenty years.
HarrietHOST
Now Deborah, a woman who was a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
HarrietHOST
She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.
HarrietHOST
Now she sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, Hasn't the Lord God of Israel commanded? Go, march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Tzvulun.
HarrietHOST
Then at the Kishon Torrent I will draw out to you Sisera, commander of Jobin's army, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will give him into your hand.
HarrietHOST
Surely I will go with you, she said.
HarrietHOST
However, no honor will be yours on the way you are about to go, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.
HarrietHOST
So Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.
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