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Judges 4:13-23

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13 Sisera called together all his chariots, 1nine hundred iron chariots, and all the people who were with him, from 2Harosheth-hagoyim * to the river Kishon.
14 Deborah said to Barak, "Arise! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hands; behold, 3the LORD has gone out before you." So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
15 4The LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.
16 But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim *, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; 5not even one was left.
17 Now Sisera fled away on foot 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 Heber the Kenite.
18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid." And he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
19 6He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him.
20 He said to her, "Stand in the doorway of the tent, and it shall be if anyone comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there anyone here?' that you shall say, 'No.' "
21 But Jael, Heber's wife, 7took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.
22 And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." And he entered with her, and behold Sisera was lying dead with the tent peg in his temple.
23 So 8God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.
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Judges 4:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 4

This chapter shows how that Israel sinning was delivered into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, by whom they were oppressed twenty years, Jud 4:1-3; and that Deborah and Barak consulted together about their deliverance, Jud 4:4-9; and that Barak, encouraged by Deborah, gathered some forces and fought Sisera the captain of Jabin's army, whom he met, and obtained a victory over, Jud 4:10-15; who fleeing on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber, was received into it, and slain by her while asleep in it, Jud 4:16-22; which issued in a complete deliverance of the children of Israel, Jud 4:23,24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

  • 1. Judges 4:3
  • 2. Judges 4:2
  • 3. Deuteronomy 9:3; 2 Samuel 5:24; Psalms 68:7
  • 4. Deuteronomy 7:23; Joshua 10:10
  • 5. Exodus 14:28; Psalms 83:9
  • 6. Judges 5:24-27
  • 7. Judges 5:26
  • 8. Nehemiah 9:24; Psalms 18:47

Footnotes 6

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