Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 4:19
A bottle of milk — As a signification of greater respect. Covered him — Upon pretence of hiding him.
A bottle of milk — As a signification of greater respect. Covered him — Upon pretence of hiding him.
Verse Judges 4:19. _SHE OPENED A BOTTLE OF MILK_] She gave more than he requested; and her friendship increased his confidence and security....
3. THIRD DECLENSION: UNDER JABIN, DEBORAH, AND BARAK CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Sold into the hand of Jabin (Judges 4:1)_ 2. The cry of the children of Israel (Judges 4:3) 3. Deborah and Barak (Judges 4:4) 4...
THE BATTLE OF THE KISHON AND THE DEATH OF SISERA. The Galilean highlanders rushed like a torrent down the slope of Mt. Tabor, and swept the enemy before them. When Sisera left his chariot and fled on...
BOTTLE. skin. MILK. Rendered "butter" in Judges 5:25. probably. buttermilk, much used in the East....
_a bottle of milk_ THE MILK-SKIN, the goat-skin in which the Bedouin still keep water, milk etc.; cf. Joshua 9:4 (used for wine). From Judges 5:25 we gather that Jael poured the milk into a bowl. Her...
SISERA FLED—TO THE TENT OF JAEL— The common Arabs so far observe the modes of the east, as to have a separate apartment in their tents for their wives, made by letting down a curtain, or a carpet, upo...
_The Death of Sisera Judges 4:17-24_ 17 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 Hebe...
_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 hi...
DEBORAH AND BARAK This deliverance is described a second time in the early poem in Judges 5 (see on Judges 5:1). No other narrative describes more clearly the religious gathering of the clans, and the...
BOTTLE OF MILK] i.e. a lamb- or goat-skin. chapter Judges 5:25 adds 'butter.' Judges 5:26 seems (though not certainly) to imply that Sisera is killed as he stands drinking....
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 After Ehud’s death, the *Israelites again did not obey God. V2 The *Lord allowed Jabin to *conquer them. Jabin was the king of Hazor in *Canaan...
GIVE ME, I PRAY THEE, A LITTLE WATER. — The request was natural enough; but, as he had not made it at first, we may suspect that he wanted to taste food in the tent, as a way of rendering still more s...
וַ יֹּ֧אמֶר אֵלֶ֛יהָ הַשְׁקִינִי ־נָ֥א מְעַט...
THE SIBYL OF MOUNT EPHRAIM Judges 4:1 THERE arises now in Israel a prophetess, one of those rare women whose souls burn with enthusiasm and holy purpose when the hearts of men are abject and desponde...
A WOMAN EXECUTIONER Judges 4:14 “The Lord discomfited Sisera and all his host.” When General Gordon rode off alone on his camel to break up the camps of the Arab slave-drivers, he realized, as he wen...
With almost wearisome monotony the story of declension, discipline, and deliverance goes forward. After the eighty years of rest, the children of Israel sinned again, and were delivered into the hands...
Judges chapter four may indicate Shamgar worked only briefly after Ehud. At any rate, the children of Israel began to worship idols again after the death of Ehud (Ruth 4:1; Ruth 5:8). God allowed Jabi...
Milk, out of a shew of greater civility. The Rabbins say the milk was sour, which is conformable to the manners of the oriental nations. Valle remarks, that the Arabs still give the preference to it....
Perhaps Jael was on the lookout, to show mercy to any poor Israelite which might have fled, from the battle. And if so, what must have been her surprise when she found Sisera at her door? Her hospital...
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-...
AND HE SAID UNTO HER, GIVE ME, I PRAY THEE, A LITTLE WATER TO DRINK, FOR I AM THIRSTY,.... Which might be occasioned by the heat of the battle, and by the heat of the day, and by heat in running; he a...
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. Ver. 19. _And she opened a bottle of milk....
_Jael said unto him, Turn in, my lord_ If Jael now intended to betray and deliver him to Barak, or otherwise to injure him, her addressing him in this manner was dissimulation and treachery, and is no...
[DEBORAH, BARAK.] 1 Deborah and Barak deliuer them from Iabin and Sisera. 18 Iael killeth Sisera. 1 AND the children of Israel againe did euil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. 2 And t...
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty, for it was a rule of hospitality that whoever had eaten or drunk anything in the tent was received into the peace...
Sisera's Death...
DEBORAH AND BARAK (vv.1-24) Ehud evidently judged Israel during 80 years of peace, but after his death Israel again turned from the Lord's ways, doing evil in His sight. It is not said WHAT evil, b...
17-24 Sisera's chariots had been his pride and his confidence. Thus are those disappointed who rest on the creature; like a broken reed, it not only breaks under them, but pierces them with many sorr...
GAVE HIM MILK TO DRINK; either because she had not water in her tent, and pretended fear of discovery or some inconvenience if she went out to fetch it; or as a signification of greater respect; or as...
Judges 4:19 said H559 (H8799) little H4592 water H4325 drink H8248 (H8685) thirsty H6770 (H8804) opened...
Judges 4:19 A ‘And he said to her, “Give me, I pray you, a little water to drink, for I am parched.” It should be noted that up to this stage she had not offered hospitality. Perhaps he should have...
CONTENTS: Victories of Deborah and Barak. CHARACTERS: God, Jabin, Deborah, Barak, Sisera, Jael. CONCLUSION: Those who slight God in their prosperity, will find themselves under a necessity of crying...
Judges 4:1. _When Ehud was dead._ This period includes eighty years from the death of Othniel, and was fraught with important events. Chushan's eight years of affliction, and Eglon's eighteen of presi...
_Jael went out to meet Sisera._ LIFE’S CRISES Emphatically are we reminded that life continually brings us to sudden moments in which we must act without time for careful reflection, the spirit of ou...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 4:1__ The fourth judge, Deborah, distinguishes herself as the most godly of all the judges. Her actions and words consistently pointed to God, not away from him....
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 4:17 The story of Sisera’s death by the hand of JAEL is told in great detail, similar to the story of Ehud’s killing of Eglon (Judges 3:12)....
_VICTORY—THE LORD GOING BEFORE.— Judges 4:12_ CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 4:12. AND THEY SHOWED SISERA, etc.] Sisera was the generalissimo of the King of Hazor; to him, therefore, the report was carried,...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 4:2 SOLD THEM. See Judges 2:14, note. JABIN KING OF HAZOR. The exact site of _Hazor_ has not been identified with certainty, but it is conjectured by Robinson, with great probabilit...
Verse four, or chapter four, verse one; the same old story. AND the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin the ki...
1 Kings 17:10; Genesis 24:43; Isaiah 41:17; John 4:7; Judges 5:25;...