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Verse Judges 5:25. _SHE BROUGHT FORTH BUTTER_] As the word חמאה
_chemah_, here translated _butter_, signifies _disturbed, agitated_,
c., it is probable that _buttermilk_ is intended. The Arabs form t...
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BUTTER - Rather curdled milk, probably a fermented and intoxicating
drink. All these marks of respect and friendship would lull Sisera
into security....
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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 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...
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BUTTER. See note on Judges 4:19....
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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...
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_The Song of Deborah and Barak Judges 5:1-31_
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
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Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel,
when the people willingly offered...
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_HE ASKED WATER, AND SHE GAVE HIM MILK; SHE BROUGHT FORTH BUTTER IN A
LORDLY DISH._ BUTTER, х_ CHEM'AAH_ (H2529), curdled milk; Septuagint,
bouturon: a favourite beverage in the East]. Josephus calls...
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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...
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BUTTER] Properly sour milk or curds. LORDLY DISH] A bowl fit for
nobles....
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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...
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BUTTER. — Rather, _curdled milk._
In a lordly dish. — Rather, _in a dish of the nobles: sephel,_ a
splendid bowl, reserved for great occasions. All this was done to lull
his suspicions into a false s...
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מַ֥יִם שָׁאַ֖ל חָלָ֣ב נָתָ֑נָה בְּ
סֵ֥פֶל אַד
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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...
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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...
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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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He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth (s)
butter in a lordly dish.
(s) Some read churned milk in a great cup....
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_Dish. Hebrew sephel; whence the symplue of the Lydians, Tuscans, and
Romans, was probably derived, denoting a bowl or jug with a handle,
designed for libations. They were formerly made of potter's wa...
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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...
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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...
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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-...
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HE ASKED WATER, AND SHE GAVE HIM MILK,.... That is, Sisera asked it of
her, as the Targum expresses it, when he turned into her tent:
SHE BROUGHT HIM FRESH BUTTER IN A LORDLY DISH; which signifies ei...
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He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in
a lordly dish.
Ver. 25. _She gave him milk._] See Judges 4:19 .
_ Butter in a lordly dish._] Butter to eat, as well as milk to...
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_He asked water_, &c. The original here is very poetical and elegant,
and not badly imitated in our translation of it, if it were placed in
hemistics thus:
_HE ASKED WATER, AND SHE GAVE MILK; _
She...
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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...
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THE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SISERA...
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He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter, the
very thickest, the most excellent cream, IN A LORDLY DISH, in a
show-bowl, the finest vessel in the tent....
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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...
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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...
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BUTTER, or, _cream_, i.e. the choicest of her milk; so the same thing
is repeated in differing words. IN A LORDLY DISH; which you are not to
understand of such a stately and costly dish as the luxury...
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Judges 5:25 asked H7592 (H8804) water H4325 gave H5414 (H8804) milk
H2461 out H7126 (H8689) cream...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 5:24 MOST BLESSED OF WOMEN. JAEL is a heroine
for killing Sisera (see Judges 4:17)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Judges 4:19...
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Butter — Or, cream, that is, the choicest of her milk: so the same
thing is repeated in different words. Lordly dish — Which you are
not to understand of such a costly dish as the luxury of after ages...