Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 253

24 door after him, and locked it. But the Israelites went to her for deci- when he was gone the servants cnrne sions. and looked and saw the door of the Perhaps he is lying down in the chamber of

25 his summer house? S0 they waited until they were alarmed, and seeing no one open the door of the retreat, 26 28 at length they took a key and opened the door, and saw their Prince fallen on the earth dead ! But Ahud escaped while they

delayed, and passed the quarries, and ran away like a tempest, and then went on and blew a trumpet in Mount Ephraim, and therChildren of Israel {locked to him from the hills, and he became their leader,·and said Follow after me, for the EVER-Lxvmc will give your enemies, So they followed after him, and captured the fords of the jordan leading to Moab and permitted no man to pass over; They also out 0E from Moab at the same period about ten thousand men,·—~all stout men of valour, and

30 not a man escaped. Moab was consequently from that time subjected to the hand of Israel, and the land was at rest eight years. (About B.c. 1328.) 31 And after that came Shamgar the son of Anath, who slew six hundred of the Philistines with an ox-goad and delivered Israel. (B,.<:. 1316.) 3aliiu, §iug bf wautan, zulrizriz israel. But the Children of Israel con-

tinued to do wrong in thesight of the EvER·L1v1No, therefore the EVER- L1v1NG delivered them- to the power of jabin, King of Canaan, who reigned in Khatzor, the·oomm_ander of whose army ,was named Sise1‘a,-_and‘ he resided in Kharshith ofthe heathen. But the Children of Israel cried to the Eveu—L1vi1szc, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the Israelites cruelly for ten years. (ac. 1300.) Qzhuraly, an Woman, gaiits § nlugr. 4 At that time a woman, Deborah, a distinguished teacher, was a judge in

5 Israel, and Deborah sat under the palm-tree of Deborah, between Rama and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim, and (B.¤·· 1296.) Qzhnmli asks Quak- lrzn-Qlrixwaut in beat u liztmli atgainzt the Ggrumtg nf §ahiu. But she sent and summoned Barak 6 the son of Abinoam, from Kadish of Has not the Evmt—L1vmo Gon of Israel ordered you, ‘ Go and encamp on Mount Thabor, and collect tenthou- sand men to you from the sons of Naphthali and the sons of Zebulon, and I will draw Sisera, the Com4 mander of the Army of jabin, with his chariots and his great numbers to you, at the River Kishon, and I will deliver him` intoyour hand ’ If you

willrego with me, I will go. And if you will not go with me, I will not O! 19 ,I will go with

you,. However, the road you go shall not lead to your honour, for the EVER- LIv1NG will give Sisera to the hand of a woman? Then Deborah arose and went with

Barak to Kadish, where Barak invited Zebulon and Naphthali to Kadish, and ten thousand men came to his feet, and Deborah went up with him, and Heber the Kenite, who was descended from Kien, one of the sons of Hobab, a father—in-law of Moses, who had also pitched his tent at Alon-Betzanim near Kadish ; and it was reported to Sisera that Barak- ben·Abinoam had occupied Mount Thabor. (B.c. 1296.) Sisera consequently summoned all

his charioteers with their nine hun- dred chariots of iron, and all his forces from Khar-sheth ofthe heathen, to the river Kishon. Then Deborah Arise! for thisis the dayiwhen I will deliver Sisera to your hand! Doesnot the Evzmuviuo go before you ?*’ So Barak descended from Mount

Thabor with the ten thousand men following him, and the Even·L1v1No routed. Sisera, with all his chariots, and all his troops, with the sword before Barak, so that Sisera descended from his chariot,-~ and lied on foot! But Barak pursued the eharioteers and the infantry to Khersheth of the I0 II I2 16