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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Judges 4:11

Valley. Hebrew elon, may denote also, (Septuagint) "a wood of oaks," (Calmet) or a plain. (Haydock) --- Haber probably left the first settlement of the Cinites near Engaddi, when his brethren went (Calmet) into the southern parts of the tribe of Juda, chap. i. 16. This is mentioned, that we might know how his wife came to be in those parts, ver. 17, &c. Whether he had given information to Jabin of these movements, as he was at peace with him, we cannot assert; but his being mentioned in this place, might seem to insinuate as much. Hebrew, ver. 12, "they told or shewed Sisara," &c. His wife, at least, did not prove unfaithful to Israel. (Haydock)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 4:11. _HOHAB THE FATHER-IN-LAW OF MOSES_] For a circumstantial account of this person, and the meaning of the original word חתן _chothen_, which is translated _son-in-law_ in Genesis 19:...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Read, “Heber the Kenitc had severed himself from the Kenites which were of the children of Hobab,” etc., “unto the oak (or terebinth tree) in Zaanaim” (or Bitzaanaim, which Conder identifies with Bess...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THIRD DECLENSION: UNDER JABIN, DEBORAH, AND BARAK CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Sold into the hand of Jabin (Judges 4:1)_ 2. The cry of the children of Israel (Judges 4:3) 3. Deborah and Barak (Judges 4:4) 4...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOBAB. Compare Numbers 10:29. UNTO THE PLAIN. Or, at the oak. Joshua 19:33....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Now Heber the Kenite_ The verse explains, with a view to Judges 4:17 ff., how the Kenites, who belonged properly to southern Palestine (see on Judges 1:16), came to be in this region: the family of H...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOW HEBER THE KENITE— This verse is a parenthesis, to render more intelligible what follows in the 17th verse. The Kenites lived after the manner of the Midianites, from whom they descended, in _tents...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE KENITES] cp. Judges 1:16. FATHER IN LAW] is correct, not (as RV) 'brother in law.' The modern traveller Porter noticed the black tents of nomads near Kedesh. PLAIN] RV'oak'; evidently a prominent...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ חֶ֤בֶר הַ קֵּינִי֙ נִפְרָ֣ד מִ קַּ֔יִן

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    With almost wearisome monotony the story of declension, discipline, and deliverance goes forward. After the eighty years of rest, the children of Israel sinned again, and were delivered into the hands...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent (f) unto the plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The account of this Kenite is very properly introduced here, in order to explain what afterwards follows in the history, Judges 4:17....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3, 4, AND 5. God, knowing what the people were, and what was their condition, had left within the borders of their land that which put obedience to the proof-...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now Heber the Kenite_ The husband of Jael. _Had severed himself from the Kenites_ From the rest of his brethren, who lived in the wilderness of Judah. What the reason was of his leaving them, is not...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [DEBORAH, BARAK.] 1 Deborah and Barak deliuer them from Iabin and Sisera. 18 Iael killeth Sisera. 1 AND the children of Israel againe did euil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. 2 And t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now Heber, the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, or brother-in-law, for the Hebrew word means simply a male relative by marriage, HAD SEVERED HIMSELF FROM THE KEN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DEFEAT OF SISERA...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-16. Siser's confidence was chiefly in his chariots. But if we have ground to hope that God goes before us, we may go on with courage and cheerfulness. Be not dismayed at the difficulties thou meet...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 4:11 Heber H2268 Kenite H7017 children H1121 Hobab H2246 father-in-law H2859 (H8802) Moses H4872 separated H6504

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ Now Heber, the Kenite, had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kede...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Victories of Deborah and Barak. CHARACTERS: God, Jabin, Deborah, Barak, Sisera, Jael. CONCLUSION: Those who slight God in their prosperity, will find themselves under a necessity of crying...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THE SAD HISTORY OF SIN CONTINUED.— Judges 4:1_ CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 4:1. AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AGAIN DID EVIL, etc.] They “_continued to do evil_.” After all the solemn and affecting dealing...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JUDGES 4:2 SOLD THEM. See Judges 2:14, note. JABIN KING OF HAZOR. The exact site of _Hazor_ has not been identified with certainty, but it is conjectured by Robinson, with great probabilit...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 18:1; Exodus 2:18; Exodus 3:1; Joshua 19:33; Joshua 19:37;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Heber — The husband of Jael. Of Hobab — Called also Jethro. The Kenites — From the rest of his brethren, who lived in the wilderness of Judah. His tent — That is, his dwelling, which probably was in t...

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