Converge Bible Studies: Women of the Bible
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James A. Harnish. Converge Bible Studies: Women of the Bible
1. DEBORAH. PASSIONATE PATRIOT. SCRIPTURE. JUDGES 4:1-24
INSIGHT AND IDEAS
QUESTIONS
2. ABIGAIL. TOO WISE FOR WAR. SCRIPTURE. 1 SAMUEL 25:1-44
INSIGHT AND IDEAS
QUESTIONS
3. MARY MAGDALENE. THE FIRST APOSTLE. SCRIPTURE. MATTHEW 27:55-61; 28:1-10. MATTHEW 27:55-61
MATTHEW 28:1-10
INSIGHT AND IDEAS
QUESTIONS
4. THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. WHERE TO GO WHEN YOU. REALLY NEED A DRINK. SCRIPTURE. JOHN 4:4-42
INSIGHT AND IDEAS
QUESTIONS
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1After Ehud had died, the Israelites again did things that the LORD saw as evil. 2So the LORD gave them over to King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he was stationed in Harosheth-ha-goiim. 3The Israelites cried out to the LORD because Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots and had oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years.
4Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was a leader of Israel at that time. 5She would sit under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the Ephraim highlands, and the Israelites would come to her to settle disputes. 6She sent word to Barak, Abinoam’s son, from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Hasn’t the LORD, Israel’s God, issued you a command? ‘Go and assemble at Mount Tabor, taking ten thousand men from the people of Naphtali and Zebulun with you. 7I’ll lure Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, to assemble with his chariots and troops against you at the Kishon River, and then I’ll help you overpower him.’”
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How might the story of Deborah speak to us today?
By an interesting twist of Providence, I was scheduled to preach on Deborah on the Sunday prior to the Fourth of July. As I reflected on the Song of Deborah in that context, I began to think that the Hebrew people repeated Deborah’s story and sang her song in a way that was similar to the way American citizens recite Longfellow’s version of “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”
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