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1 Mas os filhos de Israel tornaram a fazer o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor, depois da morte de Eúde.

2 E o Senhor os vendeu na mão de Jabim, rei de Canaã, que reinava em Hazor; o chefe do seu exército era Sísera, o qual habitava em Harosete dos Gentios.

3 Então os filhos de Israel clamaram ao Senhor, porquanto Jabim tinha novecentos carros de ferro, e por vinte anos oprimia cruelmente os filhos de Israel.

4 Ora, Débora, profetisa, mulher de Lapidote, julgava a Israel naquele tempo.

5 Ela se assentava debaixo da palmeira de Débora, entre Ramá e Betel, na região montanhosa de Efraim; e os filhos de Israel subiam a ter com ela para julgamento.

6 Mandou ela chamar a Baraque, filho de Abinoão, de Quedes-Naftali, e disse-lhe: Porventura o Senhor Deus de Israel não te ordena, dizendo: Vai, e atrai gente ao monte Tabor, e toma contigo dez mil homens dos filhos de Naftali e dos filhos de Zebulom;

7 e atrairei a ti, para o ribeiro de Quisom, Sísera, chefe do exército de Jabim; juntamente com os seus carros e com as suas tropas, e to entregarei na mão?

8 Disse-lhe Baraque: Se fores comigo, irei; porém se não fores, não irei.

9 Respondeu ela: Certamente irei contigo; porém não será tua a honra desta expedição, pois à mão de uma mulher o Senhor venderá a Sísera. Levantou-se, pois, Débora, e foi com Baraque a Quedes.

10 Então Baraque convocou a Zebulom e a Naftali em Quedes, e subiram dez mil homens após ele; também Débora subiu com ele.

11 Ora, Heber, um queneu, se tinha apartado dos queneus, dos filhos de Hobabe, sogro de Moisés, e tinha estendido as suas tendas até o carvalho de Zaananim, que está junto a Quedes.

12 Anunciaram a Sísera que Baraque, filho de Abinoão, tinha subido ao monte Tabor.

13 Sísera, pois, ajuntou todos os seus carros, novecentos carros de ferro, e todo o povo que estava com ele, desde Harosete dos Gentios até o ribeiro de Quisom.

14 Então disse Débora a Baraque: Levanta-te, porque este é o dia em que o Senhor entregou Sísera na tua mão; porventura o Senhor não saiu adiante de ti? Baraque, pois, desceu do monte Tabor, e dez mil homens após ele.

15 E o Senhor desbaratou a Sísera, com todos os seus carros e todo o seu exército, ao fio da espada, diante de Baraque; e Sísera, descendo do seu carro, fugiu a .

16 Mas Baraque perseguiu os carros e o exército, até Harosete dos Gentios; e todo o exército de Sísera caiu ao fio da espada; não restou um só homem.

17 Entretanto Sísera fugiu a para a tenda de Jael, mulher de Heber, o queneu, porquanto havia paz entre Jabim, rei de Hazor, e a casa de Heber, o queneu.

18 Saindo Jael ao encontro de Sísera, disse-lhe: Entra, senhor meu, entra aqui; não temas. Ele entrou na sua tenda; e ela o cobriu com uma coberta.

19 Então ele lhe disse: Peço-te que me dês a beber um pouco d'água, porque tenho sede. Então ela abriu um odre de leite, e deu-lhe de beber, e o cobriu.

20 Disse-lhe ele mais: Põe-te à porta da tenda; e se alguém vier e te perguntar: Está aqui algum homem? responderás: Não.

21 Então Jael, mulher de Heber, tomou uma estaca da tenda e, levando um martelo, chegou-se de mansinho a ele e lhe cravou a estaca na fonte, de sorte que penetrou na terra; pois ele estava num profundo sono e mui cansado. E assim morreu.

22 E eis que, seguindo Baraque a Sísera, Jael lhe saiu ao encontro e disse-lhe: Vem, e mostrar-te-ei o homem a quem procuras. Entrou ele na tenda; e eis que Sísera jazia morto, com a estaca na fonte.

23 Assim Deus naquele dia humilhou a Jabim, rei de Canaã, diante dos filhos de Israel.

24 E a mão dos filhos de Israel prevalecia cada vez mais contra Jabim, rei de Canaã, até que o destruíram.

   

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Meeting of three kings in Potsdam and Charlottenburg, 1709, by Samuel Theodor Gericke

In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.

In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).

In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)

In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])

In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)

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Arcana Coelestia # 1661

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1661. 'And so it was in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim' means just so many kinds of apparent goods and truths which are not in themselves goods and truths, and which were present with the Lord's external Man. This becomes clear from the meaning of all these in the internal sense, and also from what follows. For the subject is the Lord's conflict against evils and falsities, here His first conflict which came during His childhood and earliest adolescence. That conflict He first entered into and endured after He had been endowed with knowledge and cognitions, hence the expression 'in the days of' these kings.

[2] Nobody can possibly fight against evils and falsities until he knows what evil and falsity are, not therefore until he has received instruction. A person does not know what evil is, still less what falsity is, before he is capable of understanding and of forming judgements for himself, which is the reason why a person does not enter into temptations until he has reached the age of maturity. Thus everyone is tempted in adult life, but the Lord was tempted even in childhood.

[3] Everyone fights first of all from the goods and truths he has received by means of cognitions, and it is from them and by means of them that he forms judgements concerning evils and falsities. Everyone furthermore when he first starts to fight imagines that these goods and truths from which he fights are his own, that is, he ascribes them to himself, and at the same time ascribes to himself the power by which he resists. This is allowed because a person cannot at the time know anything different. Before anyone has been regenerated he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that no good or truth at all comes from self, but that everything good and true comes from the Lord; nor can he possibly know that he is unable by his own power to resist any evil or falsity. Indeed he does not know that evil spirits are activating and implanting the evils and falsities, still less that he is in communication with hell by means of evil spirits, and that hell presses on him like the sea against every part of a dike, which he can by no means resist by his own strength. Yet because he cannot do otherwise, until he has been regenerated, than imagine that he resists by his own strength, this too is permitted; and in this condition he is admitted into conflicts, or temptations. Subsequently however he becomes more and more enlightened.

[4] When a person's state is such that he imagines that good and truth originate in himself and that the power to resist is his own, the goods and truths from which he fights against evils and falsities are not really goods and truths, however much they appear to be so, for they have that which is his own within them, and he places self-merit in victory, boasting as though it were he that had overcome evil and falsity, when in fact it is the Lord alone who fights and overcomes. That this is indeed so none can know except those who are being regenerated by means of temptations.

[5] Because the Lord in earliest childhood was led into very serious conflicts against evils and falsities it was inevitable that at that time even He should think that way. This happened both because it was according to Divine order that His Human Essence should through continuous conflicts and victories be brought to the Divine Essence and united to it, and because the goods and truths from which He fought against evils and falsities belonged to the External Man. And because those goods and truths were not completely Divine they are for that reason called appearances of good and truth. His Divine Essence brought the Human Essence to itself in this way in order that it might overcome by its own power. The arcana here however are more than can possibly be described. In short, in those first conflicts the goods and truths residing with the Lord from which He fought were permeated by things inherited from the mother, and insofar as they were permeated by things inherited from the mother they were not Divine. Gradually however, as He overcame evil and falsity they were purified and made Divine.

  
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