Lighted down off his chariot - Probably his chariot stuck in the morass (see the note at Judges 4:7); or he might leave his chariot in order to mislead his pursuers, and in hope of gaining a place of safety while they were following the track of the chariot-wheels and the bulk of the host.
Verse Judges 4:15. _THE LORD DISCOMFITED SISERA_] ויהם יהוה _vayiahom_ _Jehovah; the Lord CONFOUNDED, threw them all into confusion, drove_ _them pell-mell_-caused chariots to break and overthrow cha...
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...
THE LORD DISCOMFITED. Jehovah discomfited. Compare Psalms 83:9. The word implies supernatural phenomena. Compare Judges 5:20.Exodus 14:24. Jos 10:10. 2
_discomfited_ lit. -confused," -threw into a panic." The word, not a common one, occurs again in the prose counterpart to the Song of Moses (Exodus 14:24), and in Joshua 10:10 just before the poetic f...
AND THE LORD DISCOMFITED SISERA— Though the expression in the text may be well understood according to the Scripture idiom, without any miraculous interposition; yet it is generally supposed, from the...
_Barak's Aid to Deborah Judges 4:10-16_ 10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet and Deborah went up with him. 11 Now Heber the Kenite, whic...
_AND THE LORD DISCOMFITED SISERA, AND ALL HIS CHARIOTS, AND ALL HIS HOST, WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD BEFORE BARAK; SO THAT SISERA LIGHTED DOWN OFF HIS CHARIOT, AND FLED AWAY ON HIS FEET._ The Lord di...
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...
FLED AWAY] northward to Kedesh, while Barak's host hurries westwards....
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...
DISCOMFITED. — The same word as in Exodus 14:24; Joshua 10:10. The LXX. _exestçse,_ and the Vulg. _perterruit,_ imply the element of immediate Divine aid in the battle. SISERA, AND ALL HIS CHARIOTS. —...
וַ יָּ֣הָם יְ֠הוָה אֶת ־סִֽיסְרָ֨א וְ אֶת
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...
_Terror. The most dreadful storms of thunder, lightning, &c., (chap. v. 20,) discomfited the enemy, while the sword of Barac (Calmet) dealt death around, so that Sisara and all his army presently turn...
Such, Reader, will be, and such even now is, the sure event of the wars of God's people, who fight under the banner of Jesus. There shall not a man be able to stand before thee all thy days. So run th...
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 THE LORD DISCOMFITED SISERA AND ALL [HIS] CHARIOTS, AND ALL [HIS] HOST,.... Frightened them, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, or disturbed them with a noise and tumult, as the word si...
And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet. Ver. 15...
[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 the Lord discomfited Sisera, terrified him, threw him into confusion, AND ALL HIS CHARIOTS AND ALL HIS HOST, WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD BEFORE BARAK, for nothing could withstand the charge of the...
THE DEFEAT OF SISERA...
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...
10-16. Siser's confidence was chiefly in his chariots. But if we have ground to hope that God goes before us, we may go on with courage and cheerfulness. Be not dismayed at the difficulties thou meet...
THE LORD DISCOMFITED SISERA, with great terror and noise, as the word signifies, EXODUS 14:24 JOSHUA 10:10 1SA 10, most probably with thunder, and lightning, and hailstones, or other such instruments...
Judges 4:15 LORD H3068 routed H2000 (H8799) Sisera H5516 chariots H7393 army H4264 edge H6310 sword H2719 before...
Judges 4:15 a ‘And Yahweh discomfited Sisera and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak.' It was a total rout. Without iron accoutrements to hinder them, and more...
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...
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....
_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...
2 Chronicles 13:15; 2 Kings 7:6; Hebrews 11:32; Joshua 10:10; J
Discomfited — With great terror and noise, as the word signifies, probably with thunder and lightning, and hail — stones, poured upon them from heaven, as is implied, Judges 5:20. Edge of the sword —...