“Hear, kings; listen, princes; I will sing to Adonai! I will sing praise to Adonai the God of Israel.“ -Judges 5:3 From verse 3, Devorah’s focus switches over to the gentiles. How do we know that? Because she says “Hear, kings; listen, princes”. Remember Israel had no royalty ruling over them at this time. Hence, […]

“When leaders in Israel dedicate themselves, and the people volunteer, you should all bless Adonai.” -Judges 5:2 I wanna show you something interesting in verse 2 from Judges chapter 5. Take a look at the part where it says “you should all bless Adonai”. First of all, “bless” here does NOT mean what we typically […]

“On that day D’vorah and Barak the son of Avino‘am sang this song: “When leaders in Israel dedicate themselves, and the people volunteer, you should all bless Adonai.” -Judges 5:1-2 From today, we’re going to begin our verse-by-verse study of the Song of Devorah. Without any further ado, let’s get right to it. The first […]

Scholars have a heck of a hard time making heads and tails out of the Song of Devorah. Why? Because as I mentioned yesterday, it’s a song that reflects a short slice of Hebrew history far separated from our modern day culture and languages. It’s filled with a ton of words and phrases that would […]

There are 2 reasons why we shouldn’t take a cookie cutter approach to interpreting the Bible. Reason 1: We’re centuries separated from the culture and language of the ancient Middle East. Reason 2: There are many different forms of literature present in the Scriptures. It’s Reason 2 that I wanna focus on in this post. […]