Judges 4:9

“And she said, I will surely go with thee, She made no hesitation about it, but agreed at once to go with him for his encouragement; perceiving some degree of weakness in him, and yet an hearty and sincere inclination to engage in the work proposed, and that this might be no hinderance, she readily assents to it: adding, notwithstanding the journey thou takest; the way or course he steered, the methods he took in insisting on it that she should go with him: shall not be for thine honour; as a general of an army, who is commonly solicitous to have the whole glory of an action: for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman; meaning either herself, for she being judge of Israel, and…”

“the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman--This was a prediction which Barak could not understand at the time; but the strain of it conveyed a rebuke of his unmanly fears.”

“Mark the unhesitating faith and courage of Deborah, and the rebuke to Barak’s timidity, “the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman” (Jael, Judges 4:22). For a similar use of a weak instrument, that the excellency of the power might be of God, compare the history of Gideon and his 300, David and his sling, Shamgar and his ox-goad, Samson and the jawbone of the ass. (See 1 Corinthians 1:26, 1 Corinthians 1:31.) Barak would probably think the woman must be Deborah. The prophecy was only explained by its fulfillment. Her presence as a prophetess would give a divine sanction to Barak’s attempt to raise the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali. To Barak himself it would be a pledge of her…”

“notwithstanding: Sa1 2:30; Ch2 26:18 sell Sisera: Jdg 2:14 into: Jdg 4:17-22, Jdg 5:24-27, Jdg 9:54; Sa2 20:21, Sa2 20:22 Judges 4:10”