After the 20 years had passed, God lifted up Deborah the prophetess and had her send a message to Barak (whose name means lightning) the son of Abinoam. When the battle was joined below mount Tabor at the river Kishon, God went before the Israelites and routed Sisera and his army.

While many Bible readers are unfamiliar with Barak, he was another of those mighty Hebrew warriors who answered the call of God despite overwhelming odds. His name means “lightning.” Once again in the time of the judges, Israel had drifted away from God, and the Canaanites oppressed them for 20 years.

Deborah is one of the leaders I really admire. Inspired by God, Deborah aided Barak, a male military leader to lead the armies of Israel to Mount Tabor in an all-out assault on the Canaanites. They were able to defeat Sisera, the commander of the Canaanites. The Israelites then lived in peace for the next forty years.

Gideon

In the Book of Judges, it is stated that Deborah was a prophet, a judge of Israel and the wife of Lapidoth. She rendered her judgments beneath a date palm tree between Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel in the land of Ephraim.

The story of Esther in the Bible reminds us to pray and wait for God to work. Jesus reminded us when He paraphrased the Torah and said that love is the greatest commandment. Loving God and loving others. Esther knew this in her heart and said “When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law.

The main theme in the book of Esther is that God is working behind the scenes. There was a divine purpose for all the decisions and details documented in this story, yet none of that becomes apparent until the end. God was arranging all these “secular” events to bring about His divine purpose to save the Jews.

God, in fact, is not mentioned, Esther is portrayed as assimilated to Persian culture, and Jewish identity in the book is an ethnic category rather than a religious one.

The book, written in Hebrew in the 6th–4th centuries BC, tells of the Moabite woman Ruth, who accepts Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, as her God and accepts the Israelite people as her own….Book of Ruth.

Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Selaphiel, Uriel, Barachiel, and Jehudiel.

“Jesus wept” (Koinē Greek: ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς, edákrusen ho Iēsoûs, Koine Greek pronunciation: [ɛˈda. kry. sɛn (h)o i. eˈsus]) is a phrase famous for being the shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible, as well as many other versions.

Psalm 117