A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Deborah (of Israel)
DEBORAH, Prophetess and Judge of Israel,
Holds the first rank among the illustrious women mentioned in Scripture. She freed the Hebrews from the yoke of the Canaanites, and governed them during forty years with as much glory as wisdom. P. le Moine remarks, that the Bible, which has not hidden the failings of the patriarchs, which has shewn the mistrust of Moses and Aaron, the imprudence of Joshua, the incontinence of Sampson, the fall of David, and the follies of Solomon, has recorded nothing of Deborah but her hymns and prophecies, her victories and her laws.
Josephus, &c.