Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Judges 5:5
The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
CHAPTER 5 The Song of Deborah and Barak _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (Judges 5:1)_ 2. The condition of the people and their deliverance (Judges 5:6) 3. The celebration of the victory and the victors...
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THE MOUNTAINS MELTED. from the mountains flowed down streams....
_flowed down_ STREAMED, Isaiah 64:1; the verb as in Isaiah 45:8; Job 36:28. The Hebr. form also allows the rendering _quaked_marg., LXX, from a different root. Even yon Sinai at the presence of the Lo...
Jehovah's advent. These verses describe the awful coming of Jehovah to help His people in the battle: the Godhead approaches in storm and thunder, in the very storm which brought disaster upon Sisera'...
_Judges 5:5_. The mountains flowed down at the presence of Jehovah, Even Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel. See Habakkuk 3:6. Isaiah 64:1;...
_The Song of Deborah and Barak Judges 5:1-31_ Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, 2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered...
DEBORAH'S TRIUMPH SONG This song celebrates the victory of Judges 4 but from the point of view, not of a later annalist, but of a contemporary poet—very possibly (though see Judges 5:12) the prophetes...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 V1 On that day Deborah and Barak, Abinoam’s son, sang this song. V2 ‘Praise the *Lord because the leaders of *Israel led. The people were glad to...
MELTED. — Literally, _flowed away_ — a powerful poetic image. (Comp. Isaiah 63:19; Isaiah 64:3; Psalms 97:5 — “melted like wax.”) EVEN THAT SINAI. — Rather, _even this Sinai,_ as though Deborah actual...
הָרִ֥ים נָזְל֖וּ מִ פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה זֶ֣ה סִינ
DEBORAH'S SONG: A DIVINE VISION Judges 5:1 THE song of Deborah and Barak is twofold, the first portion, ending with the eleventh verse, a chant of rising hope and pious encouragement during the time...
THE SONG OF A “MOTHER IN ISRAEL” Judges 5:1 One of the noblest odes in literature! It celebrates a mighty victory through the enthusiastic consecration of the people, who laid themselves as freewill...
Here we have preserved for us the great song of Deborah, composed and sung in celebration of the victory. It is full of fire and passion and is a remarkable index to the character of the woman herself...
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The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3, 4, AND 5. God, knowing what the people were, and what was their condition, had left within the borders of their land that which put obedience to the proof-...
THE MOUNTAINS MELTED FROM BEFORE THE LORD,.... The inhabitants of them, through fear, the Lord going before Israel in a pillar of cloud and fire, and delivering mighty kings and their kingdoms into th...
The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel. Ver. 5. _The mountains melted from before the Lord._] Heb., Flowed. “ _Ruunt de montibus amnes._ ” T...
_The mountains melted_ Or flowed with floods of water, poured out of the clouds upon them, and from them flowing down in mighty streams upon the lower grounds, and carrying down part of the mountains...
2 The Song of Deborah and Barak. 1 THEN sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying, 2 Praise ye the LORD, for the auenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselue...
The mountains melted from before the Lord, flowed away, as it were, by reason of mighty earthquakes, EVEN THAT SINAI FROM BEFORE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, for it was there that the disturbance was conce...
THE GLORY AND POWER OF ISRAEL...
THE SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARAK (vv.1-31) To celebrate God's great victory over Canaan, Deborah and Barak sang a remarkable song. Since Deborah's name is mentioned first, it seems likely that she comp...
MELTED: _ Heb._ flowed...
MELTED, or _flowed_, with floods of water poured out of the clouds upon them, and from them flowing down in a mighty stream upon the lower grounds, and carrying down some part of the mountain with it,...
Judges 5:5 mountains H2022 gushed H5140 (H8804) before H6440 LORD H3068 Sinai H5514 before H6440 LORD H3068 God...
THE GREATNESS OF YAHWEH (JUDGES 5:4). Judges 5:4 “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, When you marched out of the field of Edom, The earth quaked, the heavens also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped...
CONTENTS: Song of Deborah and Barak. CHARACTERS: God, Deborah, Barak, Jael, Sisera, Shamgar. CONCLUSION: When we have received mercy from God, we should be speedy in our returns of praise while the...
Judges 5:4. _When thou wentest out of Seir._ God came from Teman, in Seir; he covered the heavens with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise. Zechariah 3:3. In like manner he now arose to sa...
_Then sang Deborah and Barak._ LEADERS WHO LEAD This is far better given in the Revised Version: “For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, for that the people offered themselves willingly, bles...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 5:1 The victory song of Deborah and Barak praises God for his triumph over the Canaanites on Israel’s behalf (compare the Song of Solomon 1:1 of Moses and Miriam in...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 5:4 The Lord’s marching from SEIR and EDOM may suggest the time following Israel’s exodus from Egypt (compare Number
_THE THANKSGIVING SONG OF THE REDEEMED CHURCH_.—_Judges 5:1_ CRITICAL NOTES.—The _subject matter_ of this song is an ascription of praise to the God of Israel, as the Deliverer of His people in an evi...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 5:1 THEN SANG DEBORAH, etc. The ode which follows was doubtless the composition of Deborah the prophetess, and was sung by her (as the gender of the Hebrew verb indicates), assisted...
And then sang Deborah and Barak the song of Abinoam on that day, saying [or Barak the son of Abinoam] (Judges 5:1) So this is the song of Deborah and Barak, [Hallelujah,] Praise ye the LORD for the a...
Deuteronomy 4:11; Deuteronomy 4:12; Deuteronomy 5:22; Exodus 19:18;...
Melted — Or, flowed, with floods of water powered out of the clouds upon them, and from them flowing down in a mighty stream upon the lower grounds, and carrying down part of the mountains with it. Si...