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Judges 2:1-15
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Those Who Love Him Will Prosper
Judges 5:17–31
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Deborah called on her own soul to be in earnest. He that will set the hearts of other men on fire with the love of Christ, must himself burn with love, The Canaanite kings came looking for the spoil of battle, as they charged up the Valley of Jezreel with their 900 chariots of iron (vv. 17-19). Normally the foot soldiers of Deborah and Borah would have been defeated by the heavy armor of horses and chariots but in a moment everything changed as a rainstorm flooded the valley and chariots bogged down in the mud. In the confusion the Canaanites had to abandon their chariots and run for their life (vv. 20-21). Because of Gods’ intervention Israel won a great victory that day (vv. 22-23).
Gratitude is vividly expressed in this song to Hoel, wife of Heber the Henite for her brave deed in killing the enemy general Sisera (vv.24-27). At the same time a picture is drawn of Sisera’s mother standing at the window looking for her son to return in his chariot with the spoils of triumph, but she waits in vain. Two women rejoiced in victory (Deborah and Joel) but one woman (the queen mother) wept in sorrow (vv. 28-30). The writer stresses that it was the Lord’s intervention that gave them the victory (v. 31). He makes it plain that those who oppose Him must perish, but those who love Him and cooperate with Him will prosper.
Application
Have I shown gratitude to the Lord recently for some battles He has given me victory in? It is easy for me to get to thinking I am strong and can fight my own battles when really I am no match for the enemy. I am weak and He is strong and I need to look to Him for my victories.
Judges 5:17-31 (English Standard Version)
"Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings. Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field. "The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver. From heaven the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera. The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might! "Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds. "Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. "Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed. He asked water and she gave him milk; she brought him curds in a noble's bowl. She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple. Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell--dead. "Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?' Her wisest princesses answer, indeed, she answers herself, 'Have they not found and divided the spoil?-- A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?' "So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.
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