Judges 4:4–5

4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess,8 wife of Lappidoth, was9 leading10 Israel at that time. 4:5 She would sit11 under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel12 in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.13

8	tn Heb “a woman, a prophetess.” In Hebrew idiom the generic “woman” sometimes precedes the more specific designation. See GKC 437–38 §135.b.
9	tn Heb “she was.” The pronoun refers back to the nominative absolute “Deborah.” Hebrew style sometimes employs such resumptive pronouns when lengthy qualifiers separate the subject from the verb.
10	tn Or “judging.”
11	tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”
12	map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
13	tn Heb “for judgment.”