Judges 5:15-27
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15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
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16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
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17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
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18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
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19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
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20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
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21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
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22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
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23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
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24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
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25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
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27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.