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Judges Chapter 4

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Judges

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The Israelites flee to Egypt while the Midianites continue their raids, and Gideon and his men cross the Jordan to defeat the Midianites, killing many of them. After the victory Gideon is warned that his people will hate him for the bloodshed and that he must flee to the desert.

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(1) And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
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Judges 2:11Judges 2:19Judges 2:20Judges 3:7Judges 3:12Judges 6:1Judges 10:6Leviticus 26:23Leviticus 26:24Leviticus 26:25Nehemiah 9:23Nehemiah 9:24

(2) And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
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Judges 2:14Judges 2:15Judges 10:7Isaiah 50:1Matthew 18:25Joshua 11:1Joshua 11:10Joshua 11:11Joshua 19:36I Samuel 12:9Psalms 83:9Judges 4:13

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Judges 4:16I Samuel 12:9I Kings 2:32Judges 4:24I Samuel 12:3I Samuel 17:55

(3) And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
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Judges 3:9Judges 3:15Judges 10:16I Samuel 7:8Psalms 50:15Psalms 78:34Jeremiah 2:27Jeremiah 2:28Judges 1:19Joshua 17:16Judges 5:8Deuteronomy 28:29

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Judges 4:13II Chronicles 2:10Daniel 2:40Daniel 2:41II Kings 14:2II Kings 18:2

(4) And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
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Exodus 15:20II Kings 22:14Nehemiah 6:14Joel 2:28Joel 2:29Micah 6:4Luke 2:36Acts 21:9I Corinthians 11:5Galatians 3:28

(5) And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
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Genesis 35:8Joshua 16:2Joshua 18:22Joshua 18:25I Samuel 1:1I Samuel 1:19I Samuel 6:16I Samuel 6:17I Samuel 25:1Jeremiah 31:15Exodus 18:13Exodus 18:16

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Joel 1:12Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Ezekiel 41:19Genesis 2:9I Kings 6:32

(6) And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
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Judges 5:1Hebrews 11:32Joshua 19:32Joshua 19:37Joshua 21:32Joshua 1:9Psalms 7:6Isaiah 13:2Isaiah 13:3Isaiah 13:4Isaiah 13:5Acts 13:47

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Ezekiel 48:10Zechariah 14:4Judges 4:14I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:17

(7) And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
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Exodus 14:4Joshua 11:20Ezekiel 38:10Ezekiel 38:11Ezekiel 38:12Ezekiel 38:13Ezekiel 38:14Ezekiel 38:15Ezekiel 38:16Joel 3:11Joel 3:12Joel 3:13

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Judges 4:13Judges 5:21Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2

(8) And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
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Exodus 4:10Exodus 4:11Exodus 4:12Exodus 4:13Exodus 4:14Matthew 14:30Matthew 14:31

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26Ruth 4:4I Samuel 1:11I Samuel 24:21II Samuel 22:26

(9) And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
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I Samuel 2:30II Chronicles 26:18Judges 2:14Judges 4:17Judges 4:18Judges 4:19Judges 4:20Judges 4:21Judges 4:22Judges 5:24Judges 5:25Judges 5:26

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Judges 4:14Jeremiah 44:25Judges 5:7Judges 4:10Judges 4:15Judges 4:22

(10) And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
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Judges 4:6Judges 5:18Judges 5:15Exodus 11:8I Samuel 25:27I Kings 20:11

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Judges 4:6Judges 4:14Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38Judges 4:9

(11) Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
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Judges 1:16Numbers 10:29Numbers 24:21Exodus 2:18Exodus 3:1Exodus 18:1Joshua 19:33Joshua 19:37Judges 4:6

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Judges 4:17Genesis 31:33Genesis 13:12Genesis 31:25Numbers 19:14Judges 5:24

(12) And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
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Judges 4:6Joshua 19:12Joshua 19:34Psalms 89:12Jeremiah 46:18

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Judges 4:14Judges 4:6Exodus 19:20Judges 4:15Judges 4:22

(13) And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
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Judges 4:2Judges 4:3Judges 4:7

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I Kings 10:26II Chronicles 1:14Judges 4:7Judges 5:21Judges 4:16Judges 4:3

(14) And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
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Judges 19:28Genesis 19:14Genesis 44:4Joshua 7:13I Samuel 9:26Deuteronomy 9:3II Samuel 5:24Psalms 68:7Psalms 68:8Isaiah 52:12Micah 2:13

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Judges 4:6Judges 4:12Judges 4:10Judges 4:9Judges 4:15Judges 4:22

(15) And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
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Judges 5:20Judges 5:21Joshua 10:10II Kings 7:6II Chronicles 13:15II Chronicles 13:16II Chronicles 13:17Psalms 83:9Psalms 83:10Hebrews 11:32

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Judges 4:16Judges 4:22Judges 4:17Judges 5:28Judges 4:13Judges 4:14

(16) But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
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Leviticus 26:7Leviticus 26:8Joshua 10:19Joshua 10:20Joshua 11:8Psalms 104:35Romans 2:12James 2:13Isaiah 43:17

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Judges 4:15Judges 4:2I Kings 2:32II Kings 7:6Judges 4:13Exodus 14:24

(17) Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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Job 12:19Job 12:20Job 12:21Job 18:7Job 18:8Job 18:9Job 18:10Job 18:11Job 18:12Job 40:11Job 40:12Psalms 37:35

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Judges 5:24Judges 4:11Genesis 31:33Judges 4:22Judges 4:15Numbers 19:14

(18) And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
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II Kings 6:19

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Ezekiel 33:11Judges 4:22Genesis 31:33II Samuel 2:21II Chronicles 30:9Isaiah 30:21

(19) And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
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Judges 5:25Judges 5:26Genesis 24:43I Kings 17:10Isaiah 41:17John 4:7

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Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33

(20) Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
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Joshua 2:3Joshua 2:4Joshua 2:5II Samuel 17:20

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Exodus 33:10Genesis 31:33Acts 4:10Ezekiel 41:3Luke 13:25Revelation 3:20

(21) Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
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Judges 3:21Judges 3:31Judges 5:26Judges 15:15I Samuel 17:43I Samuel 17:49I Samuel 17:50I Corinthians 1:19I Corinthians 1:27Psalms 3:7Judges 5:27

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Judges 5:26Judges 4:22Genesis 31:33Zechariah 8:19II Samuel 20:10II Samuel 2:23

(22) And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
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II Samuel 17:3II Samuel 17:10II Samuel 17:11II Samuel 17:12II Samuel 17:13II Samuel 17:14II Samuel 17:15

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Judges 4:18Judges 4:21Judges 4:15Genesis 31:33Judges 4:17Judges 4:16

(23) So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
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I Chronicles 22:18Nehemiah 9:24Psalms 18:39Psalms 18:47Psalms 47:3Psalms 81:14I Corinthians 15:28Hebrews 11:33

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Judges 4:24

(24) And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
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I Samuel 3:12

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Genesis 12:5Numbers 34:2Judges 4:2Judges 4:23

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