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Verse Judges 4:18. _JAEL WENT OUT TO MEET SISERA_] He preferred the
woman's tent because of secrecy; for, according to the etiquette of
the eastern countries, no person ever intrudes into the apartmen...
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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...
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THE BATTLE OF THE KISHON AND THE DEATH OF SISERA. The Galilean
highlanders rushed like a torrent down the slope of Mt. Tabor, and
swept the enemy before them. When Sisera left his chariot and fled on...
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MANTLE. rug. Hebrew. _semikah._ occurs only here....
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_Turn in_ TURN ASIDE, cf. Judges 19:12; Genesis 19:2-3 etc.
_rug_ Only hereere. The exact meaning is unknown; no help is afforded
by the versions....
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SISERA FLED—TO THE TENT OF JAEL— The common Arabs so far observe
the modes of the east, as to have a separate apartment in their tents
for their wives, made by letting down a curtain, or a carpet, upo...
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_The Death of Sisera Judges 4:17-24_
17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife
of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of
Hazor and the house of Hebe...
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_AND JAEL WENT OUT TO MEET SISERA, AND SAID UNTO HIM, TURN IN, MY
LORD, TURN IN TO ME; FEAR NOT. AND WHEN HE HAD TURNED IN UNTO HER INTO
THE TENT, SHE COVERED HIM WITH A MANTLE._
No JFB commentary on...
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DEBORAH AND BARAK
This deliverance is described a second time in the early poem in
Judges 5 (see on Judges 5:1). No other narrative describes more
clearly the religious gathering of the clans, and the...
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MANTLE] RV 'rug,' or perhaps 'tent-curtain.'...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 4
V1 After Ehud’s death, the *Israelites again did not obey God. V2
The *Lord allowed Jabin to *conquer them. Jabin was the king of Hazor
in *Canaan...
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JAEL WENT OUT TO MEET SISERA. — This makes it probable that her
design was already formed, unless we suppose that Jael as a
chieftainess was placed above the ordinary rules which regulate the
conduct...
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וַ תֵּצֵ֣א יָעֵל֮ לִ קְרַ֣את
סִֽיסְרָא֒ וַ
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THE SIBYL OF MOUNT EPHRAIM
Judges 4:1
THERE arises now in Israel a prophetess, one of those rare women whose
souls burn with enthusiasm and holy purpose when the hearts of men are
abject and desponde...
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A WOMAN EXECUTIONER
Judges 4:14
“The Lord discomfited Sisera and all his host.” When General
Gordon rode off alone on his camel to break up the camps of the Arab
slave-drivers, he realized, as he wen...
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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...
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Judges chapter four may indicate Shamgar worked only briefly after
Ehud. At any rate, the children of Israel began to worship idols again
after the death of Ehud (Ruth 4:1; Ruth 5:8). God allowed Jabi...
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_Cloak, or rough hairy bed coverlet. Hebrew Semica, occurs no where
else. (Calmet)_...
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Perhaps Jael was on the lookout, to show mercy to any poor Israelite
which might have fled, from the battle. And if so, what must have been
her surprise when she found Sisera at her door? Her hospital...
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The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of
His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their
practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
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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-...
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AND JAEL WENT OUT TO MEET SISERA,.... Seeing him coming, and knowing
him full well, she stepped forward towards him, to invite him into her
tent: some think she was looking out, that if she saw Israel...
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And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord,
turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the
tent, she covered him with a mantle.
Ver. 18. _Turn in, my...
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_Jael said unto him, Turn in, my lord_ If Jael now intended to betray
and deliver him to Barak, or otherwise to injure him, her addressing
him in this manner was dissimulation and treachery, and is no...
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[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...
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Sisera's Death...
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And Jael went out to meet Sisera, after the manner of Oriental
hospitality, her object being to coax him into the house, AND SAID
UNTO HIM, TURN IN, MY LORD, TURN IN TO ME; FEAR NOT. She wanted to
dis...
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DEBORAH AND BARAK
(vv.1-24)
Ehud evidently judged Israel during 80 years of peace, but after his
death Israel again turned from the Lord's ways, doing evil in His
sight. It is not said WHAT evil, b...
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MANTLE:
Or, rug, or blanket...
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17-24 Sisera's chariots had been his pride and his confidence. Thus
are those disappointed who rest on the creature; like a broken reed,
it not only breaks under them, but pierces them with many sorr...
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Judges 4:18 Jael H3278 out H3318 (H8799) meet H7125 (H8800) Sisera
H5516 said H559 (H8799) aside...
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Judges 4:18 a
‘And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, ‘Turn in, my
lord, turn in to me. Do not be afraid.'
Jael went out to meet him. She would see the hunted look of the
fugitive and rea...
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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...
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Judges 4:1. _When Ehud was dead._ This period includes eighty years
from the death of Othniel, and was fraught with important events.
Chushan's eight years of affliction, and Eglon's eighteen of
presi...
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_Jael went out to meet Sisera._
LIFE’S CRISES
Emphatically are we reminded that life continually brings us to sudden
moments in which we must act without time for careful reflection, the
spirit of ou...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 4:1__ The fourth judge, Deborah, distinguishes
herself as the most godly of all the judges. Her actions and words
consistently pointed to God, not away from him....
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 4:17 The story of Sisera’s death by the hand
of JAEL is told in great detail, similar to the story of Ehud’s
killing of Eglon (Judges 3:12)....
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_VICTORY—THE LORD GOING BEFORE.— Judges 4:12_
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 4:12. AND THEY SHOWED SISERA, etc.] Sisera
was the generalissimo of the King of Hazor; to him, therefore, the
report was carried,...
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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...
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Verse four, or chapter four, verse one; the same old story.
AND the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD,
when Ehud was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin the
ki...
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2 Kings 6:19...
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Fear not — This was a promise of security, and therefore she cannot
be excused from dissimulation and treachery....