Kishon River

From their courses they fought against Caesarea.

The river Kishon swept them away, the age-old river, the river Kishon.

March on, my soul, be strong.

Then thundered the horse's hooves, galloping, galloping, go his mighty steeds.

Do not let them escape.

So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook of Kishon and executed them there.

Fire consumes, it confirms, and it convicts.

And God's power leads to the purging of sin.

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.

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.

But Barak said to her, If you are going with me, then I will go, but if you aren't going with me, I won't go.

Surely I will go with you, she said.

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Saanim, which is near Kadesh.

They told Caesar that Barak, son of Abinoam, had gone up to Mount Tabor.

So Caesar ordered all his chariots, nine hundred iron chariots, and all the troops that were with him, from Haroshet Hagoyim to the Kishon.

Then Deborah said to Barak, Arise, for this is the day in which the Lord will deliver Sisera into your hand.

There's a description of the mobilaz- mobilization of the, of the tribes.

There's a description of the battle, particularly the role of the Kishon that we talked about last time.

There's a description of Jael's triumph over Sisera, and there's a description, a kind of taunt song against Sisera's mother at the end that is taunting her as she waits for her dead son to come back from the battle.

So the, it's, the, the feeling you get reading it can feel, it can feel a little ragged, but there's a, there's a backbone that's just telling the story that was told in the previous chapter in chronological order, and then it's, there's these various interjections that interrupt that.

I have a thought on the last question there, but just to, just to add to your point about the particularity of these events, we have these partic- these very events that are given another hymnic, psalmic rendition in Psalm 83, among other, among other battles of the time of the judges and other, other periods.

Make them like Sisera, like Jabin's army.

Make the, make them like, like Canaanites at, at Kishon.

That's, that's part of Psalm 83, so it's specifically commemorating this event.

Stars? From their courses and they fought against Sisera.

The torrent Kishon swept them away.

The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.

This right here, beloved of God, what do you mean they fought? What do you mean? Here's what it means.

Stars often, a lot of scholars and even in the biblical days, stars often represent angels.