She put her hand to the nail, the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. The very fierce and vivid description may be rendered: She swung it upon Sisera, she pierces his head, and she crashes and pounds through his temples.
Verse Judges 5:26. _SHE SMOTE OFF HIS HEAD_] The original does not warrant this translation; nor is it supported by fact. _She smote his head_, and transfixed him through the temples. It was his _head...
Rather “she smote his head, and she struck and pierced through his temple.”...
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...
THE BLESSING OF JAEL. Jael's deed is unhesitatingly and emphatically approved. While the oppressor of Israel stood in her tent, drinking the milk she gave him, she suddenly felled him to the earth wit...
While he was standing (Judges 5:27) and about to drink, Jael dealt him a shattering blow with a wooden implement. We are tempted to suppose that, if he had drunk, he would have been protected by the l...
DISCOURSE: 264 JAEL AND SISERA Judges 5:24. Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she bro...
_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...
_SHE PUT HER HAND TO THE NAIL, AND HER RIGHT HAND TO THE WORKMEN'S HAMMER; AND WITH THE HAMMER SHE SMOTE SISERA, SHE SMOTE OFF HIS HEAD, WHEN SHE HAD PIERCED AND STRICKEN THROUGH HIS TEMPLES._ No JFB...
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...
NAIL.... WORKMEN’S HAMMER. — See on Judges 4:21. SMOTE. — _Hammered._ SMOTE OFF HIS HEAD. — Rather, _shattered his head._ The Hebrew is onomatopoetic, i.e., the sound echoes the sense, recalling the...
יָדָהּ֙ לַ † יָּתֵ֣ד תִּשְׁלַ֔חְנָה וִֽ ימִינָ֖הּ...
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...
_Sisara. Hebrew says with the hammer; (Protestants,) "she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken ( the nail) through his temples." But we may rather translate, (Haydock) "she pierced hi...
What a very high commendation hath the Holy Ghost been pleased to bestow on Jael? There is but one beside of whom the same is said, and the occasion is yet concerning a much greater deliverance, see L...
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-...
SHE PUT HER HAND TO THE NAIL,.... Her left hand, as the Septuagint, Arabic, and Vulgate Latin versions express it, and as appears by what follows; she having taken up a pin from her tent, with which i...
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. Ver. 26....
_She smote off his head_ Or rather, smote through his head, for there is not the least hint given in the story that she cut off his head. The latter part of the verse, _When she pierced_, &c., may be...
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 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...
SMOTE: _ Heb._ hammered...
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...
HER HAND, i.e. her left hand, as appears from the nature of the thing; and from the RIGHT HAND, which is opposed to it. _Smote off_, or, _struck through_, as the LXX. and Syriac render it; or _brake_,...
Judges 5:26 stretched H7971 (H8799) hand H3027 peg H3489 hand H3225 workmens H6001 hammer H1989 pounded H1986 ...
THE CURSED AND THE BLESSED (JUDGES 5:23). Judges 5:23 “Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh, Curse you bitterly (literally ‘curse cursing') its inhabitants, Because they came not to the help...
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...
_Blessed above women shall Jael _. .. _ be._ THE BLESSING OF JAEL And whose lips are they which pronounce this blessing? Indeed, it is Deborah the prophetess who sings this song; it is Deborah, by w...
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 5:24 MOST BLESSED OF WOMEN. JAEL is a heroine for killing Sisera (see Judges 4:17)....
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 Samuel 17:49; 2 Samuel 20:22...