I don't usually do commentary on Portion comics, but this one sticks out to me. I have had several people in my church walk use this story to support the thought that women are not supposed to be in any kind of leadership over men. They say that Deborah was chosen because no man was willing to do the job and point to Barak's "hesitance" to go out to battle without Deborah as showing the men were weak at this time.

However, nothing else in this story supports that thought. In fact, if you didn't come into with a mindset of "women shouldn't be leaders" then when you read Barak's statement, he isn't hesitating, he is actually being obedient. We have accounts before this where the Israelites went out to battle and God didn't say "go" and they paid the price for it. Barak is making sure this was in fact the order.

THEN, after the battle is over, Deborah AND Barak sing a song to praise God and their accomplishments. Both Deborah and Barak's actions are praised in the song. Then Israel had peace for 40 years. If Deborah wasn't supposed to be judging and it should have been a man, God would have done some sort of correction during that time. Peace wouldn't have happened as they would have been disobedient.

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