Judges 5, 11. “ They that are delivered from the noise of the archers in the places of drawing water; there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord towards the inhabitants of His villages in Israel —then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.” This is a part of the triumphal song of Deborah and Barak. Jabin the Canaanitish king had been defeated, and Sisera, his head captain, had died by a woman’s hand ; and then the prophetess and the warrior of Israel sang this psalm of praise, ascribing the victory to the Lord, and indicating, in the words of the text, that the war shall be memorable. They who have escaped the noise of the archers, the whistling of their arrows, shall gather at the places of familiar resort and rehearse the righteous and beneficial acts of the Lord towards his people, and they shall go down to the gates, in and out of the land, without embargo or hindrance of any sort. It is man’s prerogative alone, as head of the animal creation, to register and rehearse the deeds of his Maker. Brute creatures behold events, but they behold them as facts not as phenomena, that witness to a power behind, and within, and above.
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