Judges chapter number four, starting at verse number one, if you're ready to read it, say I'm ready.

I'm ready. If you need some time, say, give me some time. It's the Old Testament.

Oh, you got it. Come on. And it says, again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehood was dead.

So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor.

Cicero, the commander of his army, was based in Heroshth, Haguayin, because he had 900 chariots

fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for 20 years.

And they cried out to the Lord for help.

Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappideth, was leading Israel at that time.

And she held court under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel and the hill country

of Ephraim.

And the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.

And she sent for Barak, son of Abinowen from Kadesh and Naftali, and said to him,

the Lord God of Israel commands you, go, take with you 10,000 men of Nethdalae and

Zebulon and lead them up to Mount Tabor. I will lead Cicera, the commander of

Jabin's Arby, with his chariots and his troops to the Qishan River and give him

into your hands.

Barack said to her, if you go with me, I will go. But if you don't go with me, I won't go.

That's how he sounds in my head. And Deborah says, certainly I will go with you.

But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours.

For the Lord will deliver Cicero into the hands of a woman.

So Deborah went with Barack to Kadesh.

Let's fast forward to verse 17.

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