1. The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, when Ehud was dead.
2. The Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3. The children of Israel cried to the Lord, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
4. Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
5. She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgement.
6. She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?