There are places in the Bible that have really exciting stories that you've never even heard about.

You know, And we're going to be talking with Aaron Lipkin today about some of those very, very exciting Bible stories.

Let's call them backstories because whoever talks about a man

named Cicera. Well, we're going to talk about Cicero today. And some of you who are avid

scripture readers will recognize the name Cicero. Others will say, what, Cicero who? What?

Never heard of him.

But he was an enemy of Israel.

And he's spoken about in the book of judges.

Very, very, in a very negative way.

Let's put it that way.

God is against Cicero.

And this comes at the time of Deborah

and Barak. Yes. And Deborah was a judge in Israel. And if anything, she was one of the most

powerful leaders Israel ever had. And that's where this story comes together.

Yes, and we're talking about the book of judges, which is kind of considered the

medieval period of the Israelites, a time where the tribes are taking care of themselves

and the nation of Israel is not as it should be united. And they are fighting

against the Canaanites, the Emirates and the different nations that reside in the land

of Israel. Now everybody heard of the Philistines. We know that the Philistines came from the Greek islands. And yet here,

in this story, we hear that King Javan had a warlord by the name of Cisra. And again, when

we've been, when we read the story and the miraculous victory of Barack and Deborah over Cicera and the Canaanite armies, again, we see the hand of God. We see the big miracle of probably large floods that defeated the armies of Cicera and helped the Israelites.

But again, when you put the story aside, and you're going into archaeology,

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