Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Judges 4:22
Verse Judges 4:22. Behold, Sisera lay dead] What impression this made on the victorious Barak is not said: it could not give him much pleasure, especially when he learned the circumstances of his death.
Verse Judges 4:22. Behold, Sisera lay dead] What impression this made on the victorious Barak is not said: it could not give him much pleasure, especially when he learned the circumstances of his death.
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....
_And, behold, as Barak pursued_ hardly does justice to the original, -lo Barak, in pursuit of Sisera"; a remarkable coincidence! cf. Judges 11:34; Genesis 29:6. According to Judges 4:16 Barak with his...
_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...
_AND, BEHOLD, AS BARAK PURSUED SISERA, JAEL CAME OUT TO MEET HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, COME, AND I WILL SHEW THEE THE MAN WHOM THOU SEEKEST. AND WHEN HE CAME INTO HER TENT, BEHOLD, SISERA LAY DEAD, AND...
If Barak came up immediately, he must have left the main body of the pursuers almost as they left the battle-field....
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...
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...
BEHOLD, SISERA LAY DEAD. — Thus the glory, such as it was, of having slain the general of the enemy passed to a woman (Judges 4:9). The scene which thus describes the undaunted murderess standing in t...
וְ הִנֵּ֣ה בָרָק֮ רֹדֵ֣ף אֶת ־סִֽיסְרָא֒ וַ
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...
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay (l) dead,...
I leave the Reader to his own reflection, to consider what must have been the thoughts of Barak, concerning divine mercies, when he beheld Sisera dead before him, and was enabled to trace the Lord's h...
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, BEHOLD, AS BARAK PURSUED SISERA,.... Knowing the way he took, at least as he supposed: JAEL CAME OUT TO MEET HIM; as she did Sisera, but with greater pleasure: AND SAID UNTO HIM, COME, AND I WI...
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay dead, and...
_Then Jael took a nail of the tent_ That is, one of that sort on which the cords of the tent were fastened, and which consequently were of a large size. _Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou s...
[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, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and t...
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...
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 4:22 Barak H1301 pursued H7291 (H8802) Sisera H5516 Jael H3278 out H3318 (H8799) meet H7125 ...
‘ And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man who you are looking for.” And he came to her, and behold, Sisera lay dead, and th...
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 4:1__ 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....
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)....
_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 Samuel 17:10; 2 Samuel 17:3...