Judges 5:4,5

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's army, Judges 5:20 f. Similar accompaniments of Jehovah's presence are alluded to in Micah 1:3-4; Isaiah 64:1; Psalms 18:7-15; Psalms 50:3; Psalms 97:2-6. The ancient dwelling-place of Jehovah, before the establishment of the sanctuary on Zion, was not in Canaan but at Sinai (J's name, and P's) or Ho reb (E and D) Exo 3:1, 1 Kings 19:8, situated at a distance, of -eleven days by the Mt Seir road from Kadesh-Barnea" (Deuteronomy 1:2), probably in Midian, E. of the Gulf of -Aḳăbah; from thence He issued across the fieldi.e. region of Edominto Canaan for the deliverance of His people. Cf. Deuteronomy 33:2; Habakkuk 3:3; Zechariah 9:14.

wentest forth … marchedst Cf. Habakkuk 3:12 f., and Psalms 68:7 (imitated from here).

Seir the mountain range E. of the -Arâbah, from the S. of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of -Aḳ ăbah, in which the field of Edomlay, Genesis 32:3; Genesis 36:8. Seir was the home of Esau, Deuteronomy 2:5; Joshua 24:4.

the heavens also dropped The object wateris suspended till the next line, an instance of the parallelism noted above (1). But instead of droppedthe LXX. A gives were in commotion, which perhaps implies the Hebr. word for swayed; this correction is adopted by some scholars. The last two lines of this v.and the second of Judges 5:5 are copied in Psalms 68:8.