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| 1 Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying, |
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| 2 For that leaders led in Israel, For that the people willingly offered themselves, Bless Jehovah! |
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| 3 Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, even I, will sing to Jehovah; I will hymn to Jehovah the God of Israel. |
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| 4 Jehovah, when thou wentest forth from Seir, When thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water. |
The field of Edom – Type of Christendom. D15
The earth – Type of the existing order of things. A318; B162
Dropped water – The cloudburst of truth and the rising waters of knowledge are bringing to pass human catastrophe which the Lord will overrule for the blessing of the world. R5604:5
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| 5 The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel. |
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| 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, The roads were unused, and the travellers on highways went by crooked paths. |
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| 7 The villages ceased in Israel, Ceased until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel. |
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| 8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? |
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| 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Jehovah! |
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| 10 Ye that ride on white she-asses, ye that sit on carpets, and ye that walk by the way, consider. |
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| 11 Because of the voice of those who divide the spoil in the midst of the places of drawing water; There they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, His righteous acts toward his villages in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates. |
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| 12 Awake, awake, Deborah! awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead captive thy captives, thou son of Abinoam! |
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| 13 Then come down, thou, the remnant of nobles, as his people; Jehovah! come down with me in the midst of the mighty ones. |
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| 14 Out of Ephraim came those whose root was in Amalek; After thee was Benjamin among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handled the staff of the ruler. |
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| 15 And the princes in Issachar were with Deborah; And Issachar, like Barak; They were sent into the valley at his feet. In the divisions of Reuben there were great resolves of heart! |
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| 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the bleating of the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben there were great deliberations of heart! |
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| 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan; And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat on the sea-shore, And abode in his creeks. |
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| 18 Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives unto death, Naphtali also, on the high places of the field. |
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| 19 Kings came, --they fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan; At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; They took no spoil of silver. |
Megiddo – Type of the time of trouble at the end of this Christian era. Q769:2; R5604:2
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| 20 From heaven was the fight; The stars from their courses fought with Sisera. |
Stars – Figurative: this interference of God on behalf of his people Israel pictured the great Armageddon battle near at hand. R5604:5
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| 21 The torrent of Kishon swept them away, That ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. My soul, thou hast trodden down strength! |
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| 22 Then did the horse-hoofs clatter with the coursings, The coursings of their steeds. |
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| 23 Curse Meroz, saith the Angel of Jehovah; Curse, curse the inhabitants thereof; For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty. |
Against the mighty – Typifying errorists, those who fail to lift up heart, pen and voice on the Lord's side and will not be overcomers who get the victory. R1257:4
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| 24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, Blessed above women in the tent! |
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| 25 He asked water, she gave milk; In the nobles' bowl she brought forth cream. |
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| 26 She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And she smote Sisera, she struck through his head, Shattered and pierced through his temples. |
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| 27 Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: Between her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell, overcome. |
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| 28 Them other of Sisera looketh out at the window, And crieth through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the trampings of his chariots?
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| 29 The wise amongst her ladies answer her, Yea, she returneth answer to herself, |
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| 30 Have they not found, divided the booty, A damsel, two damsels, to each? A booty of dyed stuffs for Sisera, A booty of dyed stuffs of embroidery, Dyed stuff of double embroidery for the neck of a spoiler? |
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| 31 So let all thine enemies perish, Jehovah! But let them that love him be as the rising of the sun in its might. And the land had rest forty years. |
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