Verse 8
Judges 4:8
Free Bible Version
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Barak replied, “If you come with me, I'll go; but if you don't come with me, I won't go.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלֶ֨י/הָ֙ בָּרָ֔ק אִם תֵּלְכִ֥י עִמִּ֖/י וְ/הָלָ֑כְתִּי וְ/אִם לֹ֥א תֵלְכִ֛י עִמִּ֖/י לֹ֥א אֵלֵֽךְ
English Translation
And he said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you do not go with me, I will not go."
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Chapter 4 Context
1
After Ehud died, the Israelites once again did what was evil in the Lord's sight.
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2
So the Lord sold them to Jabin, king of Canaan, who ruled from Hazor. His army commander was Sisera,...
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3
The Israelites cried out to the Lord to help them, for Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots and he...
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4
Deborah, wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet, and she was leading Israel as a judge at that time.
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5
She would sit under Deborah's Palm between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the...
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6
She sent for Barak, son of Abinoam, from the town of Kedesh in Naphtali and told him, “The Lord, the...
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7
I will bring Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon R...
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8
Barak replied, “If you come with me, I'll go; but if you don't come with me, I won't go.”
9
“I'll definitely go with you,” Deborah answered, “but if you're going to take that route then you wo...
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10
Barak called up the armies of Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men assembled under his command...
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11
(Heber the Kenite had separated from the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, the father-in-law...
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12
Sisera heard that Barak, son of Abinoam, had gone to Mount Tabor,
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13
Then Deborah told Barak, “Get going! Today the Lord has handed Sisera to you. Didn't the Lord march...
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14
When Barak attacked, the Lord threw Sisera and all his chariots and warriors into a confused panic....
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15
Barak chased after the chariots and troops all the way to Harosheth-hagoyim. The whole of Sisera's a...
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16
In the meantime Sisera had run away to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there...
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17
Jael went to meet Sisera and told him, “Come on in, my lord, come in with me. Don't be afraid.” So h...
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18
“Please give me a bit of water to drink, because I'm thirsty,” Sisera asked her. So she opened a ski...
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19
“Stand guard at the tent door,” he told her. “If anybody comes and asks you, ‘Is there is anyone her...
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20
But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and crept quietly over to him where he lay...
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21
So when Barak came past, hunting for Sisera, Jael went out to meet him, and said, “Come here, and I'...
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22
That day God (Elohim) defeated Jabin, king of Canaan, in the presence of the Israelites.
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23
From then on Israel grew ever more powerful until they destroyed Jabin, king of Hazor.
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