“Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.”
'Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam. — The exhortation employs repetition to emphasize Deborah's prophetic summons to celebrate and commemorate the victory. The instruction to Barak to 'lead away your captives' indicates that the Canaanite forces left survivors to be taken as spoils or captives.
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