Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
"Zebulun and Naphtali"  (Judges 4:6,10).  One of the difficulties cited by scholars is the fact that in this chapter only these two tribes are mentioned as participating in the battle, but in  Judges 5 it appears that Ephraim, Benjamin, Machir, and Issachar also participated.  "There were two phases of the campaign: (1) the first in which only Naphtali and Zebulun participated, and (2) the second in which all six of the tribes mentioned had a part."[17">Judges 4:11)">[17]  In fact,  Judges 4:24 speaks of a conflict that continued "more and more," indicating an extensive war culminating in the permanent removal of the Canaanites as a threat to Israel.  The part of that war in which Zebulun and Naphtali were the sole participants was merely the opening campaign of it.