SIL Translator’s Notes on Judges 4:5

4:5a And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah

She sat under a palm tree that they called Deborah’s Palm Tree
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The people of Israel went to meet⌋ her under the Palm Tree of Deborah.

4:5b between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim,

between Ramah and Bethel, in the hills belonging to the clan of Ephraim.
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It was between the towns of Ramah and Bethel in the mountain region of Ephraim.

4:5c where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.

The Israelites came to consult her there and she would judge who was right and who was wrong.
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She would judge between them when they told her their disputes.

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