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Verse Judges 4:20. _STAND IN THE DOOR OF THE TENT_] As no man would
intrude into the women's apartment without permission, her simply
saying, _there is no man in my tent_, would preclude all search....
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STAND IN THE DOOR ... - The characteristic duplicity of the Oriental
character, both in Sisera and Joel, is very forcibly depicted in this
narrative. It is only by the light of the Gospel that the law...
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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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DOOR. entrance.
NO. there is not....
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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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_AGAIN HE SAID UNTO HER, STAND IN THE DOOR OF THE TENT, AND IT SHALL
BE, WHEN ANY MAN DOTH COME AND INQUIRE OF THEE, AND SAY, IS THERE ANY
MAN HERE? THAT THOU SHALT SAY, NO._
No JFB commentary on thi...
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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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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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STAND. — The imperative here used has the masculine, not the
feminine termination, but probably only because it is used generally.
THAT THOU SHALT SAY, NO. — In that age, and among those nations, and...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלֶ֔יהָ עֲמֹ֖ד פֶּ֣תַח
הָ אֹ֑הֶל
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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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Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall
be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, (i) Is there
any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
(i) That is, Sisera....
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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 HE SAID UNTO HER, STAND IN THE DOOR OF THE TENT,.... This he said,
not in an imperious way, as some think, but by entreaty:
AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN ANY MAN SHALL COME AND INQUIRE OF THEE; seeing
he...
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Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall
be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any
man here? that thou shalt say, No.
Ver. 20. _That thou shalt...
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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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Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall
be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee and say, Is there any
man here? that thou shalt say, No He felt altogether secure, an...
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Sisera's Death...
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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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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 4:20 said H559 (H8799) Stand H5975 (H8798) door H6607 tent H168
man H376 comes H935 ...
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‘ And he said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall
be, when any man shall come and enquire of you, and say, Is there any
man here? That you will say, no.”
If Jael is to be criticised f...
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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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_Thou shalt say, No._
THOU SHALT SAY, NO
A human being has his destiny, in some measure, in his own hands,
depending on his own voluntary determinations. We cannot define
exactly the limits of the pr...
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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 Samuel 17:20; Joshua 2:3...