Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Judges 5:25
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth (s) butter in a lordly dish.
(s) Some read churned milk in a great cup.
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth (s) butter in a lordly dish.
(s) Some read churned milk in a great cup.
Verse Judges 5:25. _SHE BROUGHT FORTH BUTTER_] As the word חמאה _chemah_, here translated _butter_, signifies _disturbed, agitated_, c., it is probable that _buttermilk_ is intended. The Arabs form t...
BUTTER - Rather curdled milk, probably a fermented and intoxicating drink. All these marks of respect and friendship would lull Sisera into security....
CHAPTER 5 The Song of Deborah and Barak _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (Judges 5:1)_ 2. The condition of the people and their deliverance (Judges 5:6) 3. The celebration of the victory and the victors...
THE BLESSING OF JAEL. Jael's deed is unhesitatingly and emphatically approved. While the oppressor of Israel stood in her tent, drinking the milk she gave him, she suddenly felled him to the earth wit...
BUTTER. See note on Judges 4:19....
The original is more forcible: _Water he asked, milk she gave_, _In a bowl fit for nobles she offered him curd_. _A bowl of_(i.e. fit for) _nobles_was a large, rich bowl. The word, only here and Jud...
DISCOURSE: 264 JAEL AND SISERA Judges 5:24. Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she bro...
_The Song of Deborah and Barak Judges 5:1-31_ Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, 2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered...
_HE ASKED WATER, AND SHE GAVE HIM MILK; SHE BROUGHT FORTH BUTTER IN A LORDLY DISH._ BUTTER, х_ CHEM'AAH_ (H2529), curdled milk; Septuagint, bouturon: a favourite beverage in the East]. Josephus calls...
DEBORAH'S TRIUMPH SONG This song celebrates the victory of Judges 4 but from the point of view, not of a later annalist, but of a contemporary poet—very possibly (though see Judges 5:12) the prophetes...
BUTTER] Properly sour milk or curds. LORDLY DISH] A bowl fit for nobles....
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 V1 On that day Deborah and Barak, Abinoam’s son, sang this song. V2 ‘Praise the *Lord because the leaders of *Israel led. The people were glad to...
BUTTER. — Rather, _curdled milk._ In a lordly dish. — Rather, _in a dish of the nobles: sephel,_ a splendid bowl, reserved for great occasions. All this was done to lull his suspicions into a false s...
מַ֥יִם שָׁאַ֖ל חָלָ֣ב נָתָ֑נָה בְּ סֵ֥פֶל אַד
DEBORAH'S SONG: A DIVINE VISION Judges 5:1 THE song of Deborah and Barak is twofold, the first portion, ending with the eleventh verse, a chant of rising hope and pious encouragement during the time...
AT THE MERCY OF MIDIAN Judges 5:24; Judges 6:1 What a contrast our reading suggests between those that love the Lord and go from strength to strength in the undimming luster and influence of their li...
Here we have preserved for us the great song of Deborah, composed and sung in celebration of the victory. It is full of fire and passion and is a remarkable index to the character of the woman herself...
_Dish. Hebrew sephel; whence the symplue of the Lydians, Tuscans, and Romans, was probably derived, denoting a bowl or jug with a handle, designed for libations. They were formerly made of potter's wa...
What a very high commendation hath the Holy Ghost been pleased to bestow on Jael? There is but one beside of whom the same is said, and the occasion is yet concerning a much greater deliverance, see L...
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-...
HE ASKED WATER, AND SHE GAVE HIM MILK,.... That is, Sisera asked it of her, as the Targum expresses it, when he turned into her tent: SHE BROUGHT HIM FRESH BUTTER IN A LORDLY DISH; which signifies ei...
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Ver. 25. _She gave him milk._] See Judges 4:19 . _ Butter in a lordly dish._] Butter to eat, as well as milk to...
_He asked water_, &c. The original here is very poetical and elegant, and not badly imitated in our translation of it, if it were placed in hemistics thus: _HE ASKED WATER, AND SHE GAVE MILK; _ She...
2 The Song of Deborah and Barak. 1 THEN sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying, 2 Praise ye the LORD, for the auenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselue...
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter, the very thickest, the most excellent cream, IN A LORDLY DISH, in a show-bowl, the finest vessel in the tent....
THE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SISERA...
THE SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARAK (vv.1-31) To celebrate God's great victory over Canaan, Deborah and Barak sang a remarkable song. Since Deborah's name is mentioned first, it seems likely that she comp...
24-31 Jael had a special blessing. Those whose lot is cast in the tent, in a low and narrow sphere, if they serve God according to the powers he has given them, shall not lose their reward. The mothe...
BUTTER, or, _cream_, i.e. the choicest of her milk; so the same thing is repeated in differing words. IN A LORDLY DISH; which you are not to understand of such a stately and costly dish as the luxury...
Judges 5:25 asked H7592 (H8804) water H4325 gave H5414 (H8804) milk H2461 out H7126 (H8689) cream...
THE CURSED AND THE BLESSED (JUDGES 5:23). Judges 5:23 “Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh, Curse you bitterly (literally ‘curse cursing') its inhabitants, Because they came not to the help...
CONTENTS: Song of Deborah and Barak. CHARACTERS: God, Deborah, Barak, Jael, Sisera, Shamgar. CONCLUSION: When we have received mercy from God, we should be speedy in our returns of praise while the...
Judges 5:4. _When thou wentest out of Seir._ God came from Teman, in Seir; he covered the heavens with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise. Zechariah 3:3. In like manner he now arose to sa...
_Blessed above women shall Jael _. .. _ be._ THE BLESSING OF JAEL And whose lips are they which pronounce this blessing? Indeed, it is Deborah the prophetess who sings this song; it is Deborah, by w...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 5:1 The victory song of Deborah and Barak praises God for his triumph over the Canaanites on Israel’s behalf (compare the Song of Solomon 1:1 of Moses and Miriam in...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 5:24 MOST BLESSED OF WOMEN. JAEL is a heroine for killing Sisera (see Judges 4:17)....
CHAPTER 5—_Judges 5:23_ THE MISERABLE END OF THE WICKED CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 5:23. CURSE YE MEROZ, etc.] (See above p. 285.) No fellow creature may presume to pronounce a curse on another, at thei...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 5:1 THEN SANG DEBORAH, etc. The ode which follows was doubtless the composition of Deborah the prophetess, and was sung by her (as the gender of the Hebrew verb indicates), assisted...
And then sang Deborah and Barak the song of Abinoam on that day, saying [or Barak the son of Abinoam] (Judges 5:1) So this is the song of Deborah and Barak, [Hallelujah,] Praise ye the LORD for the a...
Judges 4:19...
Butter — Or, cream, that is, the choicest of her milk: so the same thing is repeated in different words. Lordly dish — Which you are not to understand of such a costly dish as the luxury of after ages...