Barak
b. c. 1160 BCE · Biblical era · Kedesh of Naphtali (Tel Kedesh)
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Barak son of Avinoam, of Kedesh in Naphtali, was the military commander who fought alongside the prophetess Devorah. When Israel was oppressed by Yavin, king of Hazor, and his general Sisera, Devorah summoned Barak. She told him that God commanded him to take ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zevulun up Mount Tabor, and that Sisera's army would be drawn to the Wadi Kishon and delivered into his hands (Judges 4:6-7). Barak answered that he would go only if she went with him. She agreed, but warned that the glory would then go to a woman (Judges 4:8-9). Barak charged down from Tabor, Sisera's chariot army was thrown into panic, and Barak pursued it to Harosheth-goiim (Judges 4:14-16). Sisera himself fled on foot and was killed by Yael. When Barak arrived, she showed him the body (Judges 4:22). Devorah and Barak together sang the victory song of Judges 5 (Judges 5:1, 12). In 1 Samuel 12:11 the Masoretic text lists a deliverer 'Bedan', where the Septuagint reads 'Barak'.
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Kedesh of Naphtali (Tel Kedesh)Upper Galilee (Israel), near the Lebanese border
What they did here
Barak was 'of Kedesh in Naphtali' and mustered Zevulun and Naphtali at Kedesh (Judges 4:6, 10). The pin uses Tel Kedesh in Upper Galilee. Some scholars locate the Kedesh of this story at Khirbet Qedish in Lower Galilee instead.
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The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Barak’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn from recorded birth and death years (reign years for rulers whose lives are undated); where only one end of a life is known, a span of about 70 years is assumed.
Jewish world
- Devorah (the Judge-Prophetess)· 1200 BCE–1124 BCE
- Naomi (of Megillat Rus)· b. 1190 BCE
- Boaz of Beit Lechem· b. 1180 BCE
- Rut HaMoaviah (Ruth the Moabite)· b. 1155 BCE
- Shimshon ben Manoach (Samson)· 1110 BCE–1070 BCE
- Eli HaKohen· 1108 BCE–1028 BCE
- Chana (mother of Shmuel)· b. 1100 BCE
- Yiftach HaGiladi (Jephthah the Gileadite)· d. 1090 BCE
- Gidon ben Yoash (Gideon)· d. 1100 BCE
- Ehud ben Gera (the left-handed Judge)· d. 1150 BCE
Egyptian world
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