Judges 4:23

23 So on that day, God used the people of Israel to crush the power of King Jabin of Canaan.

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 When Sisera had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion, Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and walked quietly toward him with a hammer in her hand. She hammered the tent peg through his temples into the ground. So Sisera died.

22 Barak was still pursuing Sisera. When Jael came out [of her tent], she met him. She said to him, "Come in! I have something to show you--the man you've been looking for." So Barak went into her tent. He saw Sisera lying there dead with the tent peg through his temples.

23 So on that day, God used the people of Israel to crush the power of King Jabin of Canaan.

24 The Israelites became stronger and stronger until they destroyed him.