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What does Judges 4:2 mean?

"Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles."

— Judges 4:2 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.

2

Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

3

The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.

4

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.

5

She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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