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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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SO GOD SUBDUED. — The word used for God is here _Elohim,_ while
Jehovah occurs through the rest of the narrative. We are not yet in a
position to formulate the law which regulates the interchange of t...
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וַ יַּכְנַ֤ע אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום
הַ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Humbled Jabin, though he was not present in this battle. The
Israelites followed up the victory, and presently brought their late
oppressor to ruin, that all might confess, none could resist their
po...
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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...
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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-...
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SO GOD SUBDUED ON THAT DAY JABIN KING OF CANAAN BEFORE THE CHILDREN,
OF ISRAEL. Freed Israel from subjection to him and delivered him into
the hands of the Israelites; for Josephus o says, that as Bar...
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So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the
children of Israel.
Ver. 23. _So God subdued on that day Jabin._] By the death of his
general and destruction of his forces. See Judges...
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[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...
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So God subdued on that day Jabin, the king of Canaan, before the
children of Israel, by this complete defeat of his general and the
entire army....
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Sisera's Death...
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 4:23 day H3117 God H430 subdued H3665 (H8686) Jabin H2985 king
H4428 Canaan H3667 presence H6440 children...
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‘ So God subdued on that day Jabin, the king of Canaan, before the
children, of Israel.'
Jabin's efforts through his standing army had been thwarted, and
instead it was he who had been subdued. His g...
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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...
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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...
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_So God subdued on that day Jabin._
A GREAT VICTORY--BUT GOD’S
I. What he did: “God subdued. .. Jabin the king.”
1. This is the normal issue of God’s activity. For God to act is for
Him to conquer....
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_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...
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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....
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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)....
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_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,...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 22:18; 1 Corinthians 15:28; Hebrews 11:33; Nehemiah 9:24;...