Saturday, March 17, 2012

Judges 4-5

Judges 4
After Ehud, Jabin, a Canaanite king, takes over and his army commander is Sisera. Deborah is prophetess and tells Barak (not Obama) to revolt against Sisera. He does and God throws the enemy army into disarray. Sisera goes to a tent of Jael, the wife of an "ally". Sisera collapses with exhaustion and Jael uses a hammer to drill a tent peg through his head.

Woah.

Eventually, the Israelites overthrow Jabin.

Judges 5 is the song of Deborah and recounts the story from her perspective. But it comes across os poetic, so it is kind of hard to tell what details are exaggerated.

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