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March 23 - Courage for the Heavy Days · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat where we have.
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  Devotional conversations rooted in Scripture and relevant for
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  today, March 23rd. Courage for the heavy.
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  Days. Some days feel heavier than
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  others. You wake up already tired.
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  Your heart feels full, your thoughts feel loud.
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  And even simple things seem harder than they should.
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  Maybe it is. Stress, disappointment, fear,
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  loneliness, pressure. Or a battle.
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  You cannot fully explain. Heavy days can make you feel
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  weak, but they can also become places where you experience the
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  strength of God in a. Deeper way Proverbs chapter 12
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  verse. 25 says anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but
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  a good word makes him. Glad that is.
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  Such an honest picture. Anxiety has weight.
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  Worry has weight. Fear has weight.
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  But so does encouragement. A good word can lift a burden.
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  It can bring light into a dark moment.
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  It can remind a. Tired heart that.
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  It is not alone then Psalm. Chapter 30. 5 verse one says
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  contend. O Lord, with those who.
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  Contend with me, fight against those who fight against me.
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  David does not pretend he is fine.
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  He brings his struggle straight to God.
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  And in judges. Chapters 4 to 5.
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  Deborah and Barack. Face a real battle, but they
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  trust God step. Forward in courage and later
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  sing because he gave. Victory.
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  That is important because courage is not pretending the
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  day. Is easy, courage is.
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  Choosing to trust God in the middle of the heaviness.
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  It is bringing your anxious heart to Him instead of carrying
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  it alone. It is letting his words speak.
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  Louder than your. Fear it is.
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  Taking the next. Faithful step, even if your
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  knees. Are shaking while.
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  You take it. And maybe one of the strongest
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  things you can do on a heavy day is not to hide.
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  Talk to God, honestly. Let someone trustworthy
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  encourage you. Speak a good.
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  Word to someone else too, sometimes God.
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  Lifts our hearts. By letting us become part of
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  lifting another person's heart. You may feel weighed down right
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  now, but you are not abandoned. God.
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  Sees the pressure, the tears, the.
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  Questions and the battles you have not even put into words.
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  He is not far from you on Heavy. Days he is.
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  Near He is strong, he. Is able to fight for you.
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  Steady you and carry. What feels too heavy for you to?
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  Carry alone heavy days, do not get the final.
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  Word God does. Let's pray, Heavenly Father.
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  Thank you for being near when my heart.
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  Feels heavy. You see every worry, every fear.
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  And every burden I carry, help me bring my anxieties to you
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  instead of holding them alone. Fight for me where?
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  I feel weak. And fill me with courage to take
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  the next step in faith. Use your word and the
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  Proverbs chapter 12, verse 25 World English Bible Anxiety in a
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  man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
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  Psalm. Chapter 35.
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  World. English Bible.
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  By David Contend. Yahweh with those who.
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  Contend with me, fight against those who fight against me.
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  Take hold of. Shield and buckler and stand up
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  for my help. Brandish the spear and block
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  those who pursue me. Tell my soul I am your
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  salvation. Let.
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  Those who seek. After my soul be disappointed
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  and brought to dishonor, let those who plot my ruin be turned
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  back and confounded. Let them be.
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  As chaff. Before the wind, Yahweh's Angel
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  driving them on, let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's
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  Angel pursuing them. For without 'cause they have.
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  Hidden their net in a pit for me.
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  Without 'cause they have dug a. Pit for my.
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  Soul let destruction. Come on him unawares.
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  Let his net that he has hidden catch himself.
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  Let him fall into that destruction.
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  My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh.
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  It shall rejoice in His salvation.
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  All my bones shall say. Yahweh, who is like you, who
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  delivers? The poor from him who is too
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  strong for him? Yes, the poor and the needy from
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  him who robs him. Unrighteous witnesses rise up.
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  They asked me about things that I don't know.
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  About they reward me evil for good to the.
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  Bereaving of my soul, but As for me when they were sick, my
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  clothing. Was sackcloth I?
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  Afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own
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  bosom. I behaved myself as though it
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  had been my friend or my. Brother, I bowed.
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  Down mourning as one who mourns his mother, but in my.
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  Adversity, they rejoiced. And gathered themselves.
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  Together, the attackers gathered themselves.
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  Together against me and I didn't know it, They tore at me and
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  didn't cease. Like the profane mockers in
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  feasts, they gnash their teeth at me.
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  Lord, how long will you look on Rescue my soul from their
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  destruction? My precious life.
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  From the lions I will give you thanks.
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  In the great assembly I will praise you among many people.
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  Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over
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  me. Neither let those.
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  Who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
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  For they don't speak peace. But they devise deceitful words
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  against those who are quiet in the land.
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  Yes. They open their mouth wide
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  against me. They said.
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  Aha, aha. Or I has seen it.
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  You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent, Lord.
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  Don't be far from me. Wake up.
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  Rise up to defend me, my God, my Lord.
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  Contend for me. Vindicate me, Yahweh, my God.
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  According to your. Righteousness.
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  Don't let them gloat over me. Don't let them say in their
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  heart, aha, that's the way we want it.
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  Don't let them say we have swallowed him up.
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  Let them be disappointed and confounded.
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  Together who rejoice. At my calamity, let them be
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  clothed with shame and dishonor, who magnify themselves against
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  me. Let those who favor my
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  righteous. Cause.
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  Shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually,
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  may Yahweh be. Magnified, who has pleasure in
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  the prosperity of his. Servant, my tongue shall talk
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  about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
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  Judges Chapters. 4:00 to 5:00. World English Bible the children
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  of Israel again did that which. Was evil in Yahweh's sight.
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  When Ehud. Was dead.
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  Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jab and king of Canaan, who
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  reigned in Hazer, the captain of whose army was Sisra.
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  Who lived in? Hirosheth of the Gentiles, the
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  Children of Israel. Cried to Yahweh.
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  For he had 900 Chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the
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  children of Israel for 20 years now.
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  Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, judged.
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  Israel. At that time, she lived under
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  Deborah's palm tree between Rama and Bethel in the Hill Country
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  of Ephraim, and the children of Israel came up to her for
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  judgement. She sent and called Barek, the
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  son of Abenom out of Kadesh Naphtali and said to him hasn't.
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  Yahweh, the God. Of Israel commanded.
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  Go and lead. The way to Mount Taber and take
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  with you 10,000 men of the children of Naphtali and of the
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  children of Zebulun. I will draw to you.
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  To the river Kishan Sisra. The Captain.
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  Of Jabin's army, with his Chariots and his multitude.
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  And I will deliver him into your hand, Barek.
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  Said to her. If you will go with me, then I
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  will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not.
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  Go, she said. I will surely go with you.
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  Nevertheless, the journey that you take won't be for your
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  honor. For Yahweh will sell.
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  Saisra into a woman's hand, Deborah arose and went with.
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  Barrack to Kadesh. Barrack called Zebulun and
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  Naftali. Together to Kadesh. 10,000 men
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  followed him, and Deborah went up with him.
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  Now Heber the Kennite had separated himself from the
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  Kennites. Even from the.
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  Children of hobab Moses, brother-in-law, and had pitched
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  his tent as far as the oak in Zononem, which is by.
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  Kadesh, they told Saisra that. Barack, the son of Abenom, had
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  gone up to Mount Taber. Saisra gathered together all his
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  Chariots. Even 900 Chariots of iron and
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  all the people who were with him, from Hirosheth of the
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  Gentiles to the river Kishan. Deborah said to Barack, Go for
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  this is the. Day in which?
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  Yahweh has delivered. Saisra into your hand.
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  Hasn't Yahweh gone out before you?
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  So Barack went down from Mount Tabor and 10,000 men after him.
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  Yahweh, confused Saisra. All his Chariots and all his
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  army with the. Edge of the sword before Barack.
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  Saisra abandoned his chariot and fled away on his.
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  Feet, but Barack pursued the Chariots.
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  And the army to Hirosheth of the Gentiles, and all the army.
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  Of Saisra fell by the edge of the sword there was.
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  Not a man left. However, Saisra fled.
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  Away on his feet to the tent of Yale, the wife of Heber the
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  Kennite. For there was.
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  Peace between Jabin the King of Hazer, and the House of Heber
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  the Kennite. Yale went out to meet Saisra and
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  said to him, Turn in my Lord, turn into me, don't be afraid.
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  He came into her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
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  He said to her. Please give me a little water to
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  drink for I am. Thirsty.
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  She. Opened a container of milk and
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  gave him a drink and covered him.
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  He said. To her stand in the door of the
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  tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you and says, Is
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  there any man here, you shall say no then Yale.
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  Heber's wife. Took a tent peg and took a
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  hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the
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  pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground
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  for he. Was in a deep sleep.
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  So he fainted and died. Behold as Barack pursued Saisra
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  Yale. Came out to meet him, and said
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  to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.
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  He came to her and behold. Sisra lay dead.
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  And the tent peg was in his temples.
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  So God subdued. Jabin the king of Canaan before
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  the children of Israel. On that day, the hand of the
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  children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the
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  king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
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  Then Deborah and Barack, the son of Abenom, sang on that day,
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  saying. Because the leaders took the
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  lead in Israel. Because the people offered.
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  Themselves willingly be. Blessed Yahweh here you.
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  Kings give ear you Princess, I even I will.
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  Sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to.
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  Yahweh, the God of Israel. Yahweh.
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  When you went out of SER. When you marched out of the
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  field of Edom, the earth trembled.
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  The sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
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  The mountains quaked at Yahweh's presence, even sign at the
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  presence of Yahweh. The God of Israel.
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  In the days of Shamgur the son of Anath.
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  In the days. Of Yale, the.
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  Highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through
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  byways, the rulers. Ceased in Israel they ceased.
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  Until I, Deborah arose, Until I arose a mother in Israel, they.
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  Chose New Gods. Then war was in the gates.
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  Was there a shield or spear? Scene among 40. 1000 in Israel.
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  My heart is. Toward the.
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  Governors of Israel. Who offered themselves?
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  Willingly among the. People bless Yahweh, speak you
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  who? Ride on white donkeys, you who?
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  Sit on, Rich. Carpets and you who walk by the.
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  Way. Far from the noise of Archers in
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  the places of drawing water. That they will rehearse Yahweh's
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  righteous acts, the righteous acts of His rule in Israel.
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  Then Yahweh's people went down to the.
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  Gates awake, awake. Deborah, awake.
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  Awake. Utter a song.
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  Arise, Barrack. And lead.
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  Away your captives. You, son of Abenome.
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  Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down.
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  Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
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  Those whose root. Is in a Malek came out of
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  Ephraim after you Benjamin among your peoples Governors come down
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  out of Matcher. Those who handle the Marshall's
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  staff came out of Zebulun the Princess.
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  Of Issachar were with Deborah, as was Issachar, so was Barack.
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  They rushed into the valley at his feet by the.
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  Watercourses of Ruben there were great.
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  Resolves of heart. Why did you sit among the
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  sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the
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  flocks. At the.
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  Watercourses of Ruben there were great searchings of heart.
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  Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships?
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  Asher sat. Still at the haven of the sea
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  and lived. By his creeks, Zebulun was a
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  people that jeopardized their lives to the death.
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  Naftali also on the high. Places of the field.
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  The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at
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  tonic by the. Waters of Megiddo.
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  They took no plunder of silver from the sky.
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  The stars fought from their. Courses they fought.
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  Against Saisra, the river Kishan swept them away.
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  That ancient river, the river Kishan, my soul March on with
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  strength. Then the horse hoof stamped
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  because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.
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  Curse, Maraz, said Yahweh's Angel.
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  Curse bitterly. Its inhabitants because they
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  didn't come to help. Yahweh to help Yahweh.
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  Against the mighty. Yale shall be blessed.
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  Above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite.
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  Blessed shall she be. Above women in the tent, he.
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  Asked for water. She gave him milk, she brought
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  him butter in a lordly. Dish, she put.
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  Her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workman's
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  hammer with the hammer. She struck Sisra.
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  She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck
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  through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell.
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  He lay at her feet. He bowed.
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  He fell where he bowed. There he fell down dead through
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  the window. She looked out and cried.
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  Seisra's mother. Looked through the lattice.
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  Why is his? Chariot so long in coming.
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  Why do the wheels of his Chariots wait?
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  Her wise ladies answered. Her.
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  Yes, she. Returned answer to herself.
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  Have they not found? Have they not divided the
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  plunder? A lady 2.
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  Ladies to every man to cystra. A plunder of dyed garments.
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  A plunder of dyed garments. Embroidered of dyed.
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  Garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the
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  plunder. So let all your enemies.
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  Perish Yahweh, but let those who.
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  Love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.
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  Then the land had rest. 40 years.
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