KJV King James Version
And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
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Judges 4:12
And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,
WEB World English Bible
They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
ASV American Standard Version
And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they declare to Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam hath gone up to mount Tabor,
Surrounding context — Judges 4
9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.
12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, [even] nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that [were] with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet.
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Psalm 89:12The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.Jeremiah 46:18[As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.Joshua 19:34And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.Joshua 19:12And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,Judges 4:6And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, [saying], Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
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