Judges 4:11-15 - Go!

4:11-13

Heber is mentioned here because of 4:17-22. The Kenites were distantly related to Moses’ father-in-law (Judges 1:16). Heber had left the other Kenites. The Kenites had remained loyal to Israel, but Heber seems to have taken an opposite approach. Sisera learnt that Barak had assembled an army and had gone up to Mount Tabor. So Sisera got his own army together, along with his nine hundred chariots. I.e. he had  the full army with their best weapons.

4:14,15

Deborah is presented as very much in charge, giving Barak the order to go and do battle.”Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?”. God does things that we do not know about. When He tells us to do something, He will often have already prepared the ground, or will be ready to put plans into operation that we do not know about. Our trust needs to be in the Lord Himself. We do not need to know every detail. So it was that “at Barak’s advance, the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots”. Sisera’s “super weapons” were of no avail. Sisera himself fled on foot from the battlefield.