Judges 4:23

23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Judges 4:23 In-Context

21 Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

22 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 the nail was in his temples.

23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.