In the Book of Judges we read that Israel was delivered into the hands of the Canaanites, and was sorely oppressed for twenty years.  The prophetess Deborah sent for Barak, and instructed him with a message from God to the end that he should take “ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun” unto Mount Tabor.  This he did, and Sisera assembled his nine hundred chariots “from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river Kishon.  So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him. ...  Howbeit, Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber, the Kenite,” and she drove a tent-pin through his temples while he was lying asleep, (Judges 4:1-23.) The song of Deborah and Barak, beginning with the words, “For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, for that the people offered themselves willingly, bless ye Jehovah,” is recorded in the fifth chapter of Judges.

I was back in Nazareth by ten o’clock, and spent some hours looking around the city where the angel Gabriel announced to Mary the words:  “Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee” (Luke 1:28).  These hours, with what time I had already spent here, enabled me to see several places of interest.  Tradition points out many places connected with the lives of Joseph and Mary, but tradition is not always reliable, for it sometimes happens that the Greeks and the Romans each have a different location for the same event.  This is true with regard to the point where the angry people were about to throw Jesus over “the brow of the hill” (Luke 4:29).  I saw no place that struck me as being the one referred to in the Scriptures, and in reply to an inquiry, a lady at the English Orphanage, who has spent twenty years in Nazareth, said she thought it was some place on that side of the town, but the contour of the hill had probably changed.  She also mentioned that the relics taken out in excavations were all found on that side, indicating that the old city had been built there.  When Brother McGarvey visited Palestine, he found two places that corresponded somewhat with Luke’s reference to the place.  Concerning one of them he wrote:  “I am entirely satisfied that here is where the awful attempt was made.”  I was shown the “place of annunciation” in the Latin monastery.  On the top of a column stands the figure of a female, probably representing the Virgin, and a bit of ruin that is said to date back to the time of Constantine is pointed out.  Here, I was told, stood the first church building erected in Nazareth.  One of the “brothers” took the key and went around to a building supposed to stand on the site of Joseph’s carpenter shop.  It is a small chapel, built about 1858 over the ruins of some older structure.  In the floor of marble or stone there are two wooden trapdoors, which are raised to show the ruins below.  Over the altar in the end opposite the door is a picture to represent the holy family, and there are some other