_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AGAIN DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, WHEN EHUD WAS DEAD._ When Ehud was dead. The removal of this zealous judge left his infatuated countrymen again without the restraint of religion; because while the southern tribes were enjoying unmolested peace and rest during a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SOLD THEM INTO THE HAND OF JABIN KING OF CANAAN, THAT REIGNED IN HAZOR; THE CAPTAIN OF WHOSE HOST WAS SISERA, WHICH DWELT IN HAROSHETH OF THE GENTILES._ Jabin king of Canaan - Jabin was a dynastic title (Joshua 11:1). Although the number of petty chiefs who were leagued with this nort... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD: FOR HE HAD NINE HUNDRED CHARIOTS OF IRON; AND TWENTY YEARS HE MIGHTILY OPPRESSED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DEBORAH, A PROPHETESS, THE WIFE OF LAPIDOTH, SHE JUDGED ISRAEL AT THAT TIME._ Deborah - i:e., a bee (see Josephus, 'Antiquities,' b. 5:, ch. 5:, sec. 2) [Septuagint, Debboora]. A PROPHETESS, х_ NªBIY'AAH_ (H5031)]. This term, with its corresponding masculine form, was in early times applied t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE DWELT UNDER THE PALM TREE OF DEBORAH BETWEEN RAMAH AND BETHEL IN MOUNT EPHRAIM: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME UP TO HER FOR JUDGMENT._ She dwelt under the palm tree - or, collectively, a palm grove. Stanley ('Sinai and Palestine,' p. 145) takes it to have been 'a well-known and solitary... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SENT AND CALLED BARAK THE SON OF ABINOAM OUT OF KEDESH-NAPHTALI, AND SAID UNTO HIM, HATH NOT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL COMMANDED, SAYING, GO AND DRAW TOWARD MOUNT TABOR, AND TAKE WITH THEE TEN THOUSAND MEN OF THE CHILDREN OF NAPHTALI AND OF THE CHILDREN OF ZEBULUN?_ She sent and called Barak... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL DRAW UNTO THEE TO THE RIVER KISHON SISERA, THE CAPTAIN OF JABIN'S ARMY, WITH HIS CHARIOTS AND HIS MULTITUDE; AND I WILL DELIVER HIM INTO THINE HAND._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BARAK SAID UNTO HER, IF THOU WILT GO WITH ME, THEN I WILL GO: BUT IF THOU WILT NOT GO WITH ME, THEN I WILL NOT GO._ Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go. This somewhat singular request of Barak to be accompanied by Deborah was not altogether the result of weakness. The... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID, I WILL SURELY GO WITH THEE: NOTWITHSTANDING THE JOURNEY THAT THOU TAKEST SHALL NOT BE FOR THINE HONOUR; FOR THE LORD SHALL SELL SISERA INTO THE HAND OF A WOMAN. AND DEBORAH AROSE, AND WENT WITH BARAK TO KEDESH._ The Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. This was a predicti... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BARAK CALLED ZEBULUN AND NAPHTALI TO KEDESH; AND HE WENT UP WITH TEN THOUSAND MEN AT HIS FEET: AND DEBORAH WENT UP WITH HIM._ Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh - by the blast of silver trumpets (see the note at Numbers 10:9). The oppressed tribes were naturally expected to bear the b... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW HEBER THE KENITE, WHICH WAS OF THE CHILDREN OF HOBAB THE FATHER IN LAW OF MOSES, HAD SEVERED HIMSELF FROM THE KENITES, AND PITCHED HIS TENT UNTO THE PLAIN OF ZAANAIM, WHICH IS BY KEDESH._ Now Heber the Kenite, [Septuagint, Chaber] ... HAD SEVERED HIMSELF FROM THE KENITES (i:e., who were esta... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SHEWED SISERA THAT BARAK THE SON OF ABINOAM WAS GONE UP TO MOUNT TABOR._ They showed Sisera - namely, the Kenites; because it seems that they were the parties who communicated intelligence of the formidable insurrection of the Israelite tribes, as well as of the actual muster of the rebel... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SISERA GATHERED TOGETHER ALL HIS CHARIOTS, EVEN NINE HUNDRED CHARIOTS OF IRON, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, FROM HAROSHETH OF THE GENTILES UNTO THE RIVER OF KISHON._ Sisera gathered together ... from Harosheth of the Gentiles - (see the note at Judges 4:2.) Several allied kings broug... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DEBORAH SAID UNTO BARAK, UP; FOR THIS IS THE DAY IN WHICH THE LORD HATH DELIVERED SISERA INTO THINE HAND: IS NOT THE LORD GONE OUT BEFORE THEE? SO BARAK WENT DOWN FROM MOUNT TABOR, AND TEN THOUSAND MEN AFTER HIM._ Deborah said unto Barak, Up: for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivere... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD DISCOMFITED SISERA, AND ALL HIS CHARIOTS, AND ALL HIS HOST, WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD BEFORE BARAK; SO THAT SISERA LIGHTED DOWN OFF HIS CHARIOT, AND FLED AWAY ON HIS FEET._ The Lord discomfited Sisera - Hebrew, threw his army into confusion. The disorder was produced by a supernatura... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT BARAK PURSUED AFTER THE CHARIOTS, AND AFTER THE HOST, UNTO HAROSHETH OF THE GENTILES: AND ALL THE HOST OF SISERA FELL UPON THE EDGE OF THE SWORD; AND THERE WAS NOT A MAN LEFT._ But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles. Broken and routed, the main... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOWBEIT SISERA FLED AWAY ON HIS FEET TO THE TENT OF JAEL THE WIFE OF HEBER THE KENITE: FOR THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN JABIN THE KING OF HAZOR AND THE HOUSE OF HEBER THE KENITE._ Sisera fled ... to the tent of Jael - i:e. (roe, Proverbs 5:19, English version), wild goat, gazelle [Septuagint, Iaeel]. S... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JAEL WENT OUT TO MEET SISERA, AND SAID UNTO HIM, TURN IN, MY LORD, TURN IN TO ME; FEAR NOT. AND WHEN HE HAD TURNED IN UNTO HER INTO THE TENT, SHE COVERED HIM WITH A MANTLE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HER, GIVE ME, I PRAY THEE, A LITTLE WATER TO DRINK; FOR I AM THIRSTY. AND SHE OPENED A BOTTLE OF MILK, AND GAVE HIM DRINK, AND COVERED HIM._ She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, х_ NO'D_ (H4997) _ HECHAALAAB_ (H2461)] - a skin or leather bag, so called from being shake... [ Continue Reading ]
_AGAIN HE SAID UNTO HER, STAND IN THE DOOR OF THE TENT, AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN ANY MAN DOTH COME AND INQUIRE OF THEE, AND SAY, IS THERE ANY MAN HERE? THAT THOU SHALT SAY, NO._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JAEL HEBER'S WIFE TOOK A NAIL OF THE TENT, AND TOOK AN HAMMER IN HER HAND, AND WENT SOFTLY UNTO HIM, AND SMOTE THE NAIL INTO HIS TEMPLES, AND FASTENED IT INTO THE GROUND: FOR HE WAS FAST ASLEEP AND WEARY. SO HE DIED._ Then Jael ... took a nail of the tent - a wooden or iron pin-most probably... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, AS BARAK PURSUED SISERA, JAEL CAME OUT TO MEET HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, COME, AND I WILL SHEW THEE THE MAN WHOM THOU SEEKEST. AND WHEN HE CAME INTO HER TENT, BEHOLD, SISERA LAY DEAD, AND THE NAIL WAS IN HIS TEMPLES._ As Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him. Having complete t... [ Continue Reading ]