takes us back to that same moment, when the volunteers went down with Barak to engage the enemy (4:14). The present verse focuses on the contrast between those who went down and those they went down to face. The volunteers who went down with Barak were mere survivors (of the years of deprivation),101 while those they faced as their enemies were nobles and the mighty. But (and this was the secret of their success) they were also the people of Yahweh, who had responded to his call and gone down with
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