Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
This river heads just west of the great ridge of mountains bordering the area of the Jordan River and flows northwest across the plain of Esdraelon (Jezreel) near the southern foot of Mount Tabor in the east and continuing northwestward to the north of Mount Carmel, where it empties into the Mediterranean near Haifa.  "This plain of Esdraelon is one of the great battlefields of history."[16]