And they reported to Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.
Parallel translations
- WEB They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
- KJV And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
- BSB When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,
- NASB Then they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.
- NLT When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,
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Sisera learns that Barak has gone up to Mount Tabor.
Overview
Word of Israel's mustering reaches Sisera, who responds exactly as God intended. Even the enemy's intelligence and movements serve the Lord's plan to draw him to the Kishon. Human strategy unwittingly fulfills the divine word already spoken through Deborah.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 89:12The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- Josh 19:12It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
- Jer 46:18“As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- Josh 19:34The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Judg 4:6She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
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