Deborah and Barak

Deborah and Barak

Central Truth: God calls whomever he wishes to serve him.

Scriptures: Judges 4

Again the Israelites did evil. Jabin, a king of Canaan, oppressed them for twenty years. The judge at this time was Deborah, a prophetess and the only female judge. She lived in the hill country of Ephraim. While sitting under a palm tree, the children of Israel came to her for judgment. 

Deborah called for Barak out of Naphtali and said that God commanded to take 10,000 men of Israel from Naphtali and Zebulun to Mount Tabor. God would draw the Canaanite army to Barak and delivered the Canaanites into his hands, but Barak would not be the one to destroy the captain of the Canaanite army, Sisera. Instead, Deborah is chosen for that task.

Bible Scrapbook

Each week the children will be adding to their scrapbooks what they have learned during Sunday School.  The first addition to our scrapbooks was inspired by the Judges Lapbook found on the Bible Fun for Kids website. We added a page about Shamgar, the Judge who defeated the Philistines. Then we added a page for Deborah:

And then we had some fun! I found a wonderful coloring page at the Christian Resources Today website. On a blank page in our scrapbooks, we used glue sticks to glue miniature palm tree leaves on the page.

After we colored our coloring pages, we trimmed them down and glued them on top of the leaves.

Deborah and Barak coloring page on the left. On the following pages, I wrote out the Song of Deborah and Barak found in Judges 5:2-31.