Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 4:9

"And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding, the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honor; for Jehovah will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh." — Judges 4:9 (ASV)

I will surely go with you. —Literally: Going, I will go.

Shall not be for your honor. —Literally: your pre-eminence (Septuagint "proterēma"; Luther, "der Preis") shall not be on the path which you enter.

Of a woman. —To grasp the significance of this, we must remember the humble and almost downtrodden position of women in the East, so that it would undoubtedly be a humiliation to a great warrior to be told that the chief glory would fall to a woman. He may have supposed that the woman was Deborah herself; but the woman was not the great prophetess, but Jael, the wife of the nomad chief (R. Tanchum, and Josephus, Antiquities V. 5, § 4). Compare the feeling implied in Judges 9:24.