Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Judges 4:24
The Israelites now proceed to do on a small soale what, after the victories of Joshua, they had refused to do on a large one.
The Israelites now proceed to do on a small soale what, after the victories of Joshua, they had refused to do on a large one.
Verse Judges 4:24. _THE HAND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PROSPERED_] ותלך הלוך _vattelech haloch, it went, going _- they followed up this victory, and the consequence was, they utterly destroyed Jabin a...
See the margin. The meaning is, that Barak’s great victory was the beginning of a successful resistance to Jabin, by which the Israelites recovered their independence, and finally broke the Canaanite...
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...
PROSPERED. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ Hebrew going on went on. Revised Version. prevailed more and more....
_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...
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...
THE HAND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PROSPERED, AND PREVAILED. — Literally, as in the margin, _The hand.... going went, and was hard_ — i.e., “became heavier and heavier in its pressure.” The battle of...
וַ תֵּ֜לֶךְ יַ֤ד בְּנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ הָלֹ֣וךְ...
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...
How beautifully the subject ends as it begun. It was not Deborah, nor Barak, nor the ten thousands of Zebulun and Naphthali, which got themselves the victory; but God himself which subdued their enemi...
REFLECTIONS READER! I would call upon you while I desire grace to call up at the same time all the finer affections of my own heart, in the perusal of this chapter, to contemplate with fresh satisfact...
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 HAND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, PROSPERED AND PREVAILED AGAINST JABIN, THE KING OF CANAAN,.... They continued their wars with him, in which they were successful: UNTIL THEY HAD DESTROYED JABI...
And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. Ver. 24. _Until they had destroyed Jabin._] So let all...
[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...
Sisera's Death...
And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, they gained in power, AND PREVAILED AGAINST JABIN, THE KING OF CANAAN, resting ever more heavily upon him, UNTIL THEY HAD DESTROYED JABIN, KING OF CAN...
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...
PROSPERED AND PREVAILED: _ Heb._ going, went and was hard...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 4:24 hand H3027 children H1121 Israel H3478 stronger H3212 (H8799) H1980 (H8800) stronger H7186 Jabin...
‘ And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin, the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin, the king of Canaan.' Having commenced successfully Barak did not let...
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 4:17 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)....
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...
1 Samuel 3:12...