Characters & Episodes in Judges
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Judges 4
Barak
General of Israel from Kedesh-naphtali who recognized he needed Deborah's prophetic presence beside him, led 10,000 foot soldiers down Mount Tabor at her word, and routed Sisera's mud-locked chariot army.
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Deborah
The prophetess and judge who held court under the Palm of Deborah, arose as 'a mother in Israel' against twenty years of Canaanite oppression, marched up Mount Tabor beside General Barak, and declared the exact moment the LORD went out before Israel.
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General Sisera
The ruthless Canaanite commander who oppressed Israel harshly for twenty years with 900 iron chariots — until God's cloudburst bogged his wheels in the Kishon River and Jael's tent peg ended his tyranny.
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Jael
The fearless Kenite woman who welcomed the fleeing Canaanite general Sisera into her tent, gave him warm milk in a lordly bowl, and used the everyday tools in her hands — a tent peg and a workman's mallet — to crush the enemy's head.
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The Canaanite monarch reigning in Hazor whose general Sisera oppressed Israel for twenty years until God subdued Jabin before the people of Israel under Deborah and Barak.
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Nomadic descendant of Moses' father-in-law Hobab and husband of Jael, who separated from the other Kenites, pitched his tent near Kedesh, and kept a peace treaty with Canaanite King Jabin.
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Husband of the prophetess and judge Deborah in the hill country of Ephraim, whose name means 'Torches / Lightning Flashes.'
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Barak
General of Israel from Kedesh-naphtali who recognized he needed Deborah's prophetic presence beside him, led 10,000 foot soldiers down Mount Tabor at her word, and routed Sisera's mud-locked chariot army.
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Deborah
The prophetess and judge who held court under the Palm of Deborah, arose as 'a mother in Israel' against twenty years of Canaanite oppression, marched up Mount Tabor beside General Barak, and declared the exact moment the LORD went out before Israel.
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General Sisera
The ruthless Canaanite commander who oppressed Israel harshly for twenty years with 900 iron chariots — until God's cloudburst bogged his wheels in the Kishon River and Jael's tent peg ended his tyranny.
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Jael
The fearless Kenite woman who welcomed the fleeing Canaanite general Sisera into her tent, gave him warm milk in a lordly bowl, and used the everyday tools in her hands — a tent peg and a workman's mallet — to crush the enemy's head.
✦ Inspect DossierHeber the Kenite
Nomadic descendant of Moses' father-in-law Hobab and husband of Jael, who separated from the other Kenites, pitched his tent near Kedesh, and kept a peace treaty with Canaanite King Jabin.
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