Judges 4:23

23 So on that day God brought down Canaan's King Jabin before the Israelites.

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 But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent stake and a hammer. While Sisera was sound asleep from exhaustion, she tiptoed to him. She drove the stake through his head and down into the ground, and he died.

22 Just then, Barak arrived after chasing Sisera. Jael went out to meet him and said, "Come and I'll show you the man you're after." So he went in with her, and there was Sisera, lying dead, with the stake through his head.

23 So on that day God brought down Canaan's King Jabin before the Israelites.

24 And the power of the Israelites grew greater and greater over Canaan's King Jabin until they defeated him completely.