Judges 4:14

4:14 Deborah said to Barak, “Spring into action, ¹  for this is the day the Lord is handing Sisera over to you! ²  Has the Lord not taken the lead?” ³  Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

Judges 8:5

8:5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Give ⁴  some loaves of bread to the men ⁵  who are following me, ⁶  because they are exhausted. I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

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¹ tn Heb “Arise!”

² tn The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the Lord speaks of it as a “done deal.”

³ tn Heb “Has the Lord not gone out before you?”

⁴ tn Or perhaps, “sell.”

⁵ tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because these were warriors and in ancient Israelite culture would have been exclusively males.

⁶ tn Heb “who are at my feet.”