<p class="bodytext">Joshua and all Israel turned to Debir and fought against it.

<p class="poetry">See now, I have opened<n id="1" /> my mouth;p> <p class="poetry">my tongue in my mouth has spoken.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Naaman<n id="1" /> went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

(Deborah,<n id="1" /> Rebekah&#8217;s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named<n id="2" /> Oak of Weeping.)<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When his master heard his wife say,<n id="1" /> &#8220;This is the way<n id="2" /> your slave treated me,&#8221;<n id="3" /> he became furious.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">Issachar&#8217;s leaders were with Deborah,p> <p class="poetry">the men of Issachar<n id="1" /> supported<n id="2" /> Barak;p> <p class="poetry">into the valley they were sent under Barak&#8217;s command.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Among the clans of Reuben there was intense<n id="4" /> heart searching.<n id="5" />p>

It then went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning northward to Gilgal (which is opposite the Pass<n id="1" /> of Adummim south of the valley), crossed to the waters of En Shemesh and extended to En Rogel.

Deborah said to Barak, &#8220;Spring into action,<n id="1" /> for this is the day the <sc>Lordsc> is handing Sisera over to you!<n id="2" /> Has the <sc>Lordsc> not taken the lead?&#8221;<n id="3" /> Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.