num_pages: 242
description: Christian fiction inspired by the Bible Judges chapters four and five.On his deathbed Deborahs grandfather prophesied she would be a Judge for Israel. But the elders of Ramah vowed a woman would never sit in the city gates to listen to cases. So Deborah and her husband Barak returned to his hometown of Kedesh in the northern part of the Israel where trouble brewed nearby: King Jabin II had appointed Sisera to be commander of his army and his nine-hundred iron chariots.Meanwhile God brings disputes to Deborah for her to adjudicate and soon she is holding court under the palm trees outside of Kedesh. Then God tells Deborah to hurry back to Ramah and the family escapes just before Commander Sisera invades Israel and ransacks Kedesh.But Israel has no standing army to respond and not a shield or a spear was seen among forty-thousand men. How will God use two such improbable people a peasant woman and her husband to lead Israel to victory against this formidable foe?
language: English
title: Woman of Light: A novel based on the life of Deborah
publisher: HopeSprings Books