A Stern Defense Of Palms #IamDeborah

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+--------A Stern Defense Of Palms; Deborah's Last Words Before Leading Barak, Israel In Battle

And these are all my children I defend-
not Hebrew people only,
but ideals. Of freedom objectively, of
equality, mutuality of love and respect
for humans, for beast, for land.
Inner zeal to confront Canaanite culture
-like snakes hissing, sick of being
hunted- vile misogyny, bestiality brazen,
burnings of boys and girls on idol altars
…the char, the flesh ash, innocent blood
stirring a Good God’s disgust. This is
what I speak beneath the Palm: A wife,
a judge, a prophet, a warrior, a woman
…who wont see Sisera, his 900 crass
chariots of iron in Israel breathing again.

------Judges 4:1-10
Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help. Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’” Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.” “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.