Barak

Barak son of Abinoam was summoned by the prophetess and judge Deborah, who delivered a command from the LORD: take ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun to Mount Tabor and engage Sisera, commander of the Canaanite forces with nine hundred iron chariots. Barak agreed only on the condition that Deborah come with him. She agreed, but told him the honor of the victory would go to a woman — not to him. At Deborah's signal, Barak charged down from Tabor with his ten thousand men; the LORD routed Sisera's entire army with confusion, and Sisera fled on foot. He took refuge in the tent of Jael, who killed him with a tent peg through his temple while he slept — fulfilling Deborah's prophecy.

Barak and Deborah sang a victory song together (Judges 5), one of the oldest poems in the Hebrew scriptures. His conditional response to God's call is honest rather than heroic, and yet the New Testament places him among the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 alongside Gideon, Samson, and Jephthah — figures whose faith was real even when their courage was mixed.