Sisera
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Oct 28, 2026
Caroline CramptonHOST
It's theatrical.
Caroline CramptonHOST
At one point, the Lamprey children act out the Old Testament tale of Yale and Sisera, and gruesomely gothic, with the first murder victim being skewered through the eye.
Caroline CramptonHOST
The victim's wife, coincidentally, seems to be an actual witch.
Alex ClarkGUEST
It is fantastically gothic.
Kyle LambGUEST
Now, she's not on the battlefield like... carrying a sword, but she's given him the guidance that he needed.
Kyle LambGUEST
So then they end up in this battle with this guy named Sisera.
Kyle LambGUEST
And it's that age old story, like you're familiar with Battle of Agincourt in 1415, when the French and the English fought.
Kyle LambGUEST
We few, we lucky few, we band of brothers.
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Kyle LambGUEST
Okay, so that happens in 1415.
Kyle LambGUEST
Well, let's go way, way, way back in the time machine.
Kyle LambGUEST
We've got Baraka and Deborah sitting up on this hilltop and you got Sisera that comes up with his chariots and the Israelites, they don't have chariots.
Kyle LambGUEST
They just got, they might have some horses or donkeys, but they're mostly on foot.
Bill SalusGUEST
And he gets us back into the book of Judges, and he says, deal with them as Gideon did with Midian.
Bill SalusGUEST
And he gets into these episodes, and he talks about deal with them as Ehud, Barak, and the prophet Destever had to deal with Jabin and Sisera.
Bill SalusGUEST
And when you read those Old Testament stories, you find out what Asaph was really doing.
Bill SalusGUEST
These were, for instance, the Midianites had oppressed Israel.
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.
Bill SalusGUEST
And they ceased to ever oppress Israel again.
Mike FilipHOST
When Jacob was coming to Egypt and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.
Mike FilipHOST
And when they forgot the Lord, their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain to the host of Hazor and the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab.
Mike FilipHOST
And they fought against him and they cried.
Mike FilipHOST
So he starts giving them this history of how God brought them out of Egypt.
Shaya KatzHOST
Meaning, I need your leadership on the battlefield if I am to go attack Sisra and the... and the people of Canaan.
Shaya KatzHOST
I think, right, Sisera is the, he's just, he's the general of Canaan, but who's the king of Canaan? Yavin, that's right.
Shaya KatzHOST
Yavin was the king of Canaan, and I guess he was sort of leading them into battle too, but the point is that Barak was hesitant to do it without Devorah's prodding, or Devorah's leadership.
Shaya KatzHOST
I have an impression here Okay,
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Shaya KatzHOST
We're not sure what she's doing there.
Shaya KatzHOST
But we'll see in a second.
Shaya KatzHOST
Now, we haven't heard from Sisera, but we were told about Sisera.
Shaya KatzHOST
that he was the army general.
Pitts EvansHOST
From the heavens the stars fought.
Pitts EvansHOST
From their courses they fought against Caesarea.
Pitts EvansHOST
The river Kishon swept them away, the age-old river, the river Kishon.
Pitts EvansHOST
March on, my soul, be strong.
Chaim BurmanHOST
This is not only geographically as explained by Rashi, but he also sees in regards to their situation of peace, tranquility and the suffering that those who perturb the land and attack the people in the land in times of strife and struggle.
Chaim BurmanHOST
and the Torah refers to their various lands of the tribes that he saw and Rashi explains what it was specifically beyond the geography that he saw so he sees the land of Dan and he sees that the idols that were set up in that area in the book of Shoftan are mentioned but he also sees the power and dedication of Shimshon He sees the land of Naphtali and he sees Devorah and Barak who fought against Sisera.
Chaim BurmanHOST
He sees the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and he sees the great Yeshua who fought against Canaan who came from the tribe of Ephraim.
Chaim BurmanHOST
And he sees Gideon who came from the tribe of Manasseh fighting the war against Midian and Amalek.
Pitts EvansHOST
So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor.
Pitts EvansHOST
Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth, Hagoyim.
Pitts EvansHOST
Because he had 900 chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for 20 years, they cried out to the Lord for help.
Pitts EvansHOST
Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was leading Israel at that time.
Pitts EvansHOST
And the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.
Pitts EvansHOST
She sent for Barak, son of Abinoim, from Kadesh in Naphtali, and said to him, The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you, go take with you 10,000 men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor.
Pitts EvansHOST
I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.
Pitts EvansHOST
Barak said to her, If you will go with me, I will go.
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.
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Hollisa AlewineGUEST
We know that a lot of problems in terms of idolatry were going on.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
in the northern kingdom, not that Judah wasn't also caught up in it, but Israel was so deeply immersed in it, of course, that they were dispersed sooner than Judah.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
We're interested in how these stories connect because of the chariots, because of the iron chariots of Sisera, which we know point us to Rome, which was the Iron Kingdom.
Hollisa AlewineGUEST
The chariots seem to continue showing up in these Armageddon stories.
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.
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