Judges 4:13

13 Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.

Judges 4:13 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
English Standard Version (ESV)
13 Sisera called out all his chariots, chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.
New Living Translation (NLT)
13 he called for all 900 of his iron chariots and all of his warriors, and they marched from Harosheth-haggoyim to the Kishon River.
The Message Bible (MSG)
13 Sisera immediately called up all his chariots to the Kishon River - nine hundred iron chariots! - along with all his troops who were with him at Harosheth Haggoyim.
American Standard Version (ASV)
13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, unto the river Kishon.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
13 So Sisera summoned all his chariots (900 chariots made of iron) and all his troops from Harosheth Haggoyim to come to the Kishon River.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
13 Sisera summoned all his 900 iron chariots and all the people who were with him from Harosheth of the Nations to the Wadi Kishon.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
13 So Sisera gathered together his 900 chariots that had some iron parts. He also gathered all of his men together. He brought them from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River.

Judges 4:13 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 4:13

And Sisera gathered together all his chariots
Or "therefore" he gathered them together, which might lie some in one place, and some in another, for the better quartering of the men that belonged to them:

[even] nine hundred chariots of iron;
and which, as before observed, are magnified by Josephus, and made to be three thousand;

and all the people that [were] with him;
his soldiers, Jabin's army, of which he was captain, and are called a multitude, ( Judges 4:7 ) ; and which, the above writer says F8, consisted of three hundred thousand foot, and ten thousand horse, besides the iron chariots: these he collected together, and brought with him,

from Harosheth of the Gentiles;
the place where he resided with his army, ( Judges 4:2 ) ;

unto the river of Kishon;
which was near Mount Tabor, the rendezvous of Barak and his men, see ( Judges 4:6 Judges 4:7 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F8 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 5. sect. 1.)

Judges 4:13 In-Context

11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.
12 When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,
13 Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.
14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.
15 At Barak’s advance, the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Joshua 17:16; ver 3
  • 2. S ver 7; Judges 5:19
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