Judges 4:23

23 On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.

Judges 4:23 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
English Standard Version (ESV)
23 So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.
New Living Translation (NLT)
23 So on that day Israel saw God defeat Jabin, the Canaanite king.
The Message Bible (MSG)
23 On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the People of Israel.
American Standard Version (ASV)
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
23 So on that day, God used the people of Israel to crush the power of King Jabin of Canaan.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
23 That day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
23 On that day God brought Jabin under Israel's control. He was a king in 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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Judges 4:23 In-Context

21 But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.
22 Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.
23 On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
24 And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Nehemiah 9:24; Psalms 18:47; Psalms 44:2; Psalms 47:3; 1Psalms 44:2
  • 2. S Joshua 11:1
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