The Song That Named Names.

The battle was over. Sisera's army — nine hundred iron chariots, a military machine that had terrorized Israel for twenty years — lay destroyed. The river Kishon had swept them away. Sisera himself was dead, killed not by a warrior on the battlefield but by a woman with a tent peg in her hand.

And in the aftermath, Deborah and Barak did something that might surprise you. They didn't strategize next steps. They didn't hold a debrief. They sang. What follows is one of the oldest poemsin the entire Bible — a raw victory anthem that God, honors the brave, publicly calls out the ones who stayed home, and tells the whole story without flinching at any of the details.