among them being the king of hazar and his chief generals, cicero. and they are sort of being ground under this hammer of oppression. deborah decides to fight back, and deborah is the one who goes and finds the military commander who s going to lead the armies of israel in the field. god had called deborah to take them into battle, and she d gone to their military commander, barak, to say, hey, god s told us to go do this. he said, i don t want to do it unless you go with me. deborah answered and said, okay, we re going to do this. but because of your hesitance, god is going to deliver cicero, the leader of the opposing army, into the hands of a woman. she s going to get the credit for doing this. if god wants to use you in a situation, you should submit and say yes and trust in him. finally, the moment arrived and deborah led her people to battle alongside barak and the israeli army. together, the impossible was achieved and cicero s army was defeated.
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it s a feature story that is not about a woman of israel. it s about a know about woman. so, ruth marries into a family that actually left judea because of a famine, difficult circumstances. so she marries into the family when they re away from their homeland. but years later, tragedy hit the family. ruth and her sister in law, auba, became widows along with their mother in law, naomi. the three of them are now left unprotected without a man in that situation to watch over them in that particular time and place, it was necessary. so naomi, her mother in law, says, i m going to go home, back to my people, the people of israel. and both of her daughter in law say, we want to go with you. the three set off on their journey to judah. but as they traveled, naomi urged the young women to go back to their homeland as she continued forward. while all but turned around. ruth chose to stay and watch over her mother in law.
the story of david. but in order to have david, we have to have samuel, the prophet who anointed david to his great calling. and to have samuel, we have to have hannah. so hannah stands right at the center of this unfolding story. scripture doesn t give us that much information about hannah. interestingly enough, we don t know much of her background. she is an ordinary woman from one of the tribes of israel. hannah was not from a powerful family, nor was she the wife of a powerful man. she was married to elcano, a common man from an obscure village. what does leap out at us in scripture is her relationship with her husband, which is extraordinarily tender. he is very concerned about her. it s almost a quasi romantic interlude. we don t have many of those in scripture. he had another wife. that s really hard for us to understand in modern times how difficult and vexing that must have been for her. but here s the thing. her husband loved her dearly. alcina might have been
married to two women, but hannah had his heart. hannah ached for a child of her own, but a struggle with infertility left her barren. a physical and emotional hardship that consumed her. people don t understand the stigma of being infertile in jewish culture and in jewish history. it was a sign of god s favor. if a woman for four children and the more children she bore the jews felt like that she was most loved of god. and for her, it was especially tough because she wanted that. it was such a desire of her heart. and it wasn t just that. it was at the other wife did have plenty of children and mocked and gave hannah such a hard time. eventually, hannah s pain reached a breaking point and she poured out her sorrow to god. she goes to the temple at shiloh and implores god to give her this favor.
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