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Biblical Lives: Deborah & Jael
Evangel
High School Class
Series: Biblical
Lives to Live By
Genesis-II
Samuel
Noah Abraham & Sarah Rebekah Jacob
Joseph Moses Joshua
Deborah & Jael
Gideon Samson Hannah
Samuel Naomi & Ruth David
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Deborah & Jael
This lesson is based on the following passages: (If
you are online, you can look them up at Bible
Gateway.)
Judges 2:6-23 (after reading this passage, answer question
1 below)
Judges 4:1-24 (after reading this passage, answer questions
2, 3, and 4 below)
Judges 5:1-31 (after reading this passage, answer the remaining
questions)
Discuss the following questions:
What were conditions like during the times of the Judges--what
was the pattern of the people's behavior and God's response?
What was Deborah's public role in Israel at the beginning
of this story? What did she do for the people and how did the
people think of her?
What did God want to do at the beginning of this story?
How did God go about carrying out his plan: Who did he use?
Why did he use them? How did he use them?
In what ways is Jael surprising in this story--what is unexpected
about her?
What is the difference in form between the account in Judges
4 and the account in Judges 5?
Who is praised and who is criticized in the second account.
Why are they praised or criticized?
What lessons can we draw from these two stories about Deborah
and Jael?
Summary of Deborah and Jael: Women
Who Stepped Foreward to Lead
In the times of the Judges, the people of
Israel went through the same cycle over and over again. When
they had a strong leader, a judge who feared God, they obeyed
God, and God blessed them. When the judge died, they tended to
fall away from God and, as a result, to fall under the dominance
of surrounding peoples. Then they would call to the Lord, who
would raise up a leader. The leader would deliver Israel from
their oppressors, and then there would be a time of peace and
blessing in Israel during the judge's lifetime.
In our study for this week, we find Israel
under the dominance of Jabin, a Canaanite. The leader in Israel
was Deborah, who arbitrated disputes among the Israelites. It
is somewhat surprising to find that a woman is the leader because
most of the leaders in the Bible, as in history, were men. But
it is clear from this story that God is not opposed to women
being in the role of a leader.
God told Deborah that He was going to deliver
Israel from Jabin, and so she called upon Barak to get an army
together and lead the liberation. He was afraid to do it on his
own, so Deborah agreed to help him lead, but she warned him that
he would not get the glory for the victory.
When the battle occured, God fought for Israel
and their enemies fled. The leader of Jabin's army, Sisera, also
fled but took refuge in the tent of Jael, the wife of someone
he thought was on his side. However, when Sisera fell asleep,
Jael drove a spike through his temples. As a result, God gave
the victory to Israel by the hands of women.
Another interesting thing in our reading for
this lesson is that the story is told twice--once as a prose
story, once as a poem. The prose story tells the sequence of
events without making too many comments. The poem, on the other
hand, praises the actions of some people and criticizes the actions
of others. Poetry was often committed to memory in ancient times,
so it is likely that the poem is older than the prose story.
The writer probably knew the poem, as did many people who had
been taught it as children. Then the writer, with God's help,
rewrote the story in prose as part of the larger story told in
the book of Judges.
The story of Deborah and Jael is important
in the Bible because it teaches us that God delivers His people
when they call on Him and that God is not opposed to using women
to lead. So maybe we shouldn't worry too much about what other
people will say; instead, we should seek to know God and to obey
His directions--even if they seem to be contrary to expectations
and cultural norms.
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