Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Judges 4:3
Mightily oppressed More than former tyrants, from his malice and hatred against the Israelites, and from God's just judgment, the growing punishment being suitable to their aggravated wickedness.
Mightily oppressed More than former tyrants, from his malice and hatred against the Israelites, and from God's just judgment, the growing punishment being suitable to their aggravated wickedness.
Verse Judges 4:3. _NINE HUNDRED CHARIOTS OF IRON_] Chariots _armed_ with iron scythes, as is generally supposed; they could not have been made all of iron, but they might have been _shod with iron_,...
OPPRESSED - The same word is used Exodus 3:9 of the oppression of Israel by the Egyptians. If they were put to task-work in hewing timber, their condition was very like that of their ancestors making...
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 PREPARATION FOR WAR. D's framework is found in Judges 4:1 and Judges 4:23 f. Judges 4-5. Deborah and Barak Deliver Israel. The record of this deliverance appears first in a prose and then in a poe...
TWENTY YEARS.. long time to wait for deliverance....
Deborah and Barak Delivered Israel Judges 4:1 to Judges 5:31 _The Rise of Deborah Judges 4:1-9_ And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead. 2 And the Lord...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD: FOR HE HAD NINE HUNDRED CHARIOTS OF IRON; AND TWENTY YEARS HE MIGHTILY OPPRESSED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
CHARIOTS] They would be well-nigh irresistible on the plain. The Israelites, living in the hills, had none until Solomon's time. 4-24. Defeat and Death of Sisera....
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...
CRIED UNTO THE LORD. — Judges 3:9; Judges 3:15; Psalms 107:13. NINE HUNDRED. — Josephus magnifies the number to 3,000. CHARIOTS OF IRON. —...
וַ יִּצְעֲק֥וּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל ־יְהוָ֑ה...
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'S DELIVERANCE Judges 4:1 The scene changes to the northern part of Canaan. Deborah probably belonged to Issachar, Judges 5:15; but her seat of government was removed to the hill country of Ep...
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...
_Scythes. Hebrew, "chariots of iron." (Calmet)_...
Observe how grace works. The cry of the soul, and that cry, directed unto the Lord; these are sure marks of grace. If the Reader would see the contrast of this, it will not be far to find. Carnal men...
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 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD,.... Because of their hard bondage, and begged deliverance from it, being brought to a sense of their sins, and humbled for them: FOR HE HAD NINE HUNDRE...
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. Ver. 3. _He mightily oppressed the children of...
[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 children of Israel cried unto the Lord; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel, making them feel the full weight and power of h...
THE PROPHETESS DEBORAH CALLS BARAK...
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...
More than the former tyrants; partly from his malice and hatred against the Israelites; and principally from God's just judgement, the growing punishment being most suitable to their aggravated wicked...
Judges 4:3 children H1121 Israel H3478 out H6817 (H8799) LORD H3068 nine H8672 hundred H3967 chariots H7393 iron...
‘ And the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.' They once again recognised that Yahweh alone...
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...
_Israel again did evil _. .. _ the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin._ REAPPEARANCE OF VANQUISHED FOES Their ancient foe, whom they had conquered, rose gradually from his prostration. He rebuilt...
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....
_THE SAD HISTORY OF SIN CONTINUED.— Judges 4:1_ CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 4:1. AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AGAIN DID EVIL, etc.] They “_continued to do evil_.” After all the solemn and affecting dealing...
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 Samuel 7:8; Deuteronomy 28:29; Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:47;...
Mightily oppressed — More than former tyrants; from his malice and hatred against the Israelites; and from God's just judgment, the growing punishment being suitable to their aggravated wickedness....