Deborah warned Barak that if she went with him in battle that a woman would get the credit for victory over Sisera. We would assume she meant herself, but it was Jael who defeated Sisera. While Sisera slept, Jael grabbed a tent peg and a hammer and drove the peg into his temple, killing him…

Deborah accompanied Barak, Zebulun, and Naphtali to Kadesh. They brought with them an army of ten thousand men under Barak’s command.  After they got into position, word reached Sisera that Barak had gone up to Mount Tabor, so Sisera gathered together all his chariots and his entire army. Sisera’s army waited at the bottom of…

As the people of Israel came to Deborah for wisdom and advice, one man who didn’t go to Deborah was Barak, the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. Deborah knew that God was speaking to him, but he wasn’t responding. So she sent word for him to come to her so that she might…

The people cried out to the Lord, and He sent them Deborah, an ordinary housewife married to an obscure man named Lapidoth. God gifted her as a prophetess, and she sat in her yard under a palm tree and gave out advice to those who came to her. During a time when men trembled in…

Achsah's father Caleb offered her in marriage to whoever could conquer the city of Debir. Othniel took the challenge and succeeded, and was thus rewarded with Achsah as his wife. Achsah, however, was no trophy wife. She was a woman with the ability to analyze a situation and devise a solution to a potential problem….