Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Judges 4:11-24. Let’s go!
Judges 4:11 (NIV)
11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.
On verse 11: The author of Judges has been talking about Deborah and Barak of the Israelites going to war against the Canaanites, so what does Heber the Kenite have anything to do with this? We’ll see starting at verse 17.
Judges 4:12-14 (NIV)
12 When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,
13 Sisera gathered together his nine hundred iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River.
14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, followed by ten thousand men.
On verses 12-14: Previously in Judges 1:19, the tribe of Judah could not advance successfully in the plains because they were intimidated by their enemies’ iron chariots. Now the Israelites are facing iron chariots again, but rather than being intimidated, Deborah tells Barak to move forward in faith. She reminds him that the LORD has already gone before him.