Judges 4:23

23 That day God gave the Israelites victory over Jabin, the Canaanite king.

Judges 4:23 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 4:23

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 F15 says, that as Barak went towards Hazor, he met Jabin, and slew him; who perhaps having heard of the defeat of his army under Sisera, came forth with another against Israel, which being overcome by them, he was slain, and the city utterly destroyed, as the same writer says; but by what follows it seems rather that the total conquest of him was afterwards and gradually accomplished.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 5. sect. 4.

Judges 4:23 In-Context

21 Sisera was so tired that he fell sound asleep. Then Jael took a hammer and a tent peg, quietly went up to him, and killed him by driving the peg right through the side of his head and into the ground.
22 When Barak came looking for Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, "Come here! I'll show you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, and there was Sisera on the ground, dead, with the tent peg through his head.
23 That day God gave the Israelites victory over Jabin, the Canaanite king.
24 They pressed harder and harder against him until they destroyed him.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.