Rising. Hebrew, when he goeth forth in his might." Let the just advance in virtue, and glory, as the sun becomes more beautiful and hot as he leaves the horizon, on a clear summer day. This comparison is often applied to the servants of God, Ecclesiasticus xvi. 16., 2 Kings xxiii. 5., and Matthew xiii. 45. (Calmet)
A most striking conclusion, in which the spiritual truth, which the whole narrative is intended to convey, comes out. The enemies of the Lord will perish like the host of Sisera, and all their hopes w...
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...
SO. Figure of speech _Epiphonema._ HAD REST. See note on Judges 3:11....
Conclusion. _So let all thine enemies perish_ With the same completeness, with the same overthrow of proud confidence. The language recalls Psalms 68:2-3; Psalms 92:9. It is taken for granted that Isr...
DISCOURSE: 265 THE PRAYER OF DEBORAH Judges 5:31. _So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might._ OF the victories gained by God’...
_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...
_SO LET ALL THINE ENEMIES PERISH, O LORD: BUT LET THEM THAT LOVE HIM BE AS THE SUN WHEN HE GOETH FORTH IN HIS MIGHT. AND THE LAND HAD REST FORTY YEARS._ So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord ... Th...
Final prayer. The last clause is added by the editor....
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...
SO LET ALL THINE ENEMIES PERISH, O LORD. — The abrupt burst in which the song rushes, as it were, to its conclusion, is very grand. The total frustration of the hopes of the princesses is all the more...
כֵּ֠ן יֹאבְד֤וּ כָל ־אֹויְבֶ֨יךָ֙ יְהוָ֔ה וְ...
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...
AT THE MERCY OF MIDIAN Judges 5:24; Judges 6:1 What a contrast our reading suggests between those that love the Lord and go from strength to strength in the undimming luster and influence of their li...
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...
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the (x) sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. (x) Shall grow daily more and more in Go...
The song as beautifully ends in prayer as it had opened in praise: to the contents of which every lover of the Lord Jesus and his Church, cannot but say Amen. They who love God's church, must hate the...
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-...
SO LET ALL THINE ENEMIES PERISH, O LORD!.... As Sisera and his army did, and be disappointed as his mother and her ladies were; which is not only a wish or prayer that it might be, but a prophecy that...
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. Ver. 31. _So let all thine enemies perish, &...
_So let thine enemies perish, O Lord_ That is, so suddenly, so surely, so effectually and irrecoverably; an elegant apostrophe of the prophetess this, in turning and addressing her speech to God; that...
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...
So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord, fallen and brought to naught like Sisera; BUT LET THEM THAT LOVE HIM BE AS THE SUN WHEN HE GOETH FORTH IN HIS MIGHT. The rising of the sun in his full strength...
THE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SISERA...
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...
24-31 Jael had a special blessing. Those whose lot is cast in the tent, in a low and narrow sphere, if they serve God according to the powers he has given them, shall not lose their reward. The mothe...
SO, i.e. so suddenly, so surely, so effectually and irrecoverably. WHEN HE GOETH FORTH IN HIS MIGHT; when he first riseth, and so goeth on in his course, which he doth with great might, even _as a str...
Judges 5:31 enemies H341 (H8802) perish H6 (H8799) LORD H3068 love H157 (H8802) sun H8121 out...
THE CRY OF TRIUMPH (JUDGES 5:31). Judges 5:31 a “So let all your enemies perish, Oh Yahweh. But let those who love him be as the sun when he goes out in his might.” Deborah finishes with a cry to...
Judges 5:31 What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this, that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures as prayer and praise, faith and submission; and surely, if so, espe...
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...
_So let all Thine enemies perish, O Lord._ THE IMPRECATIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT I have chosen this verse rather than any detailed utterances from the imprecations that are found in the imprecatory P...
GOD'S SUNS Let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. Judges 5:31. Did you ever try to think of what the world would be like without the sun? As a matter of fact there wo...
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...
CHAPTER 5—_Judges 5:23_ THE MISERABLE END OF THE WICKED CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 5:23. CURSE YE MEROZ, etc.] (See above p. 285.) No fellow creature may presume to pronounce a curse on another, at thei...
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...
1 Corinthians 8:3; 1 John 4:19; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 5:3; 1 Peter 1:8;...
So let — That is, so suddenly, so surely, so effectual and irrecoverably. Deborah was a prophetess and this prayer was a prediction, that in due time all God's enemies shall perish. In his might — Whe...