Judges 4:4-6

4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, ¹  wife of Lappidoth, was ²  leading ³  Israel at that time. 4:5 She would sit ⁴  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ⁵  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ⁶ 

4:6 She summoned ⁷  Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, “Is it not true that the Lord God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

Judges 4:2

4:2 The Lord turned them over to ⁸  King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. ⁹  The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. ¹⁰ 

Judges 20:19

20:19 The Israelites got up the next morning and moved ¹¹  against Gibeah.

Isaiah 49:23

49:23 Kings will be your children’s ¹²  guardians;

their princesses will nurse your children. ¹³ 

With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you

and they will lick the dirt on ¹⁴  your feet.

Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;

those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Romans 16:13

16:13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me. ¹⁵ 

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “ a woman, a prophetess.” In Hebrew idiom the generic “woman” sometimes precedes the more specific designation. See GKC 437-38 §135.b.

[4:4]  ² tn Heb “she was.” The pronoun refers back to the nominative absolute “Deborah.” Hebrew style sometimes employs such resumptive pronouns when lengthy qualifiers separate the subject from the verb.

[4:4]  ³ tn Or “judging.”

[4:5]  ⁴ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

[4:5]  ⁵ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “for judgment.”

[4:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[4:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord sold them into the hands of.”

[4:2]  ⁹ tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”

[4:2]  ¹⁰ tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”

[20:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “encamped.”

[49:23]  ¹² tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).

[49:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.

[49:23]  ¹⁴ tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”

[16:13]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “and his mother and mine.”