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Verse Judges 5:26. _SHE SMOTE OFF HIS HEAD_] The original does not
warrant this translation; nor is it supported by fact. _She smote his
head_, and transfixed him through the temples. It was his _head...
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Rather “she smote his head, and she struck and pierced through his
temple.”...
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CHAPTER 5
The Song of Deborah and Barak
_ 1. The praise of Jehovah (Judges 5:1)_
2. The condition of the people and their deliverance (Judges 5:6)
3. The celebration of the victory and the victors...
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THE BLESSING OF JAEL. Jael's deed is unhesitatingly and emphatically
approved. While the oppressor of Israel stood in her tent, drinking
the milk she gave him, she suddenly felled him to the earth wit...
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While he was standing (Judges 5:27) and about to drink, Jael dealt him
a shattering blow with a wooden implement. We are tempted to suppose
that, if he had drunk, he would have been protected by the l...
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DISCOURSE: 264
JAEL AND SISERA
Judges 5:24. Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the
Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked
water, and she gave him milk; she bro...
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_The Song of Deborah and Barak Judges 5:1-31_
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2
Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel,
when the people willingly offered...
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_SHE PUT HER HAND TO THE NAIL, AND HER RIGHT HAND TO THE WORKMEN'S
HAMMER; AND WITH THE HAMMER SHE SMOTE SISERA, SHE SMOTE OFF HIS HEAD,
WHEN SHE HAD PIERCED AND STRICKEN THROUGH HIS TEMPLES._
No JFB...
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DEBORAH'S TRIUMPH SONG
This song celebrates the victory of Judges 4 but from the point of
view, not of a later annalist, but of a contemporary poet—very
possibly (though see Judges 5:12) the prophetes...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 5
V1 On that day Deborah and Barak, Abinoam’s son, sang this song.
V2 ‘Praise the *Lord because the leaders of *Israel led. The people
were glad to...
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NAIL.... WORKMEN’S HAMMER. — See on Judges 4:21.
SMOTE. — _Hammered._
SMOTE OFF HIS HEAD. — Rather, _shattered his head._ The Hebrew is
onomatopoetic, i.e., the sound echoes the sense, recalling the...
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DEBORAH'S SONG: A DIVINE VISION
Judges 5:1
THE song of Deborah and Barak is twofold, the first portion, ending
with the eleventh verse, a chant of rising hope and pious
encouragement during the time...
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AT THE MERCY OF MIDIAN
Judges 5:24; Judges 6:1
What a contrast our reading suggests between those that love the Lord
and go from strength to strength in the undimming luster and influence
of their li...
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Here we have preserved for us the great song of Deborah, composed and
sung in celebration of the victory. It is full of fire and passion and
is a remarkable index to the character of the woman herself...
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_Sisara. Hebrew says with the hammer; (Protestants,) "she smote off
his head, when she had pierced and stricken ( the nail) through his
temples." But we may rather translate, (Haydock) "she pierced hi...
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What a very high commendation hath the Holy Ghost been pleased to
bestow on Jael? There is but one beside of whom the same is said, and
the occasion is yet concerning a much greater deliverance, see L...
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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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SHE PUT HER HAND TO THE NAIL,.... Her left hand, as the Septuagint,
Arabic, and Vulgate Latin versions express it, and as appears by what
follows; she having taken up a pin from her tent, with which i...
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She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's
hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head,
when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Ver. 26....
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_She smote off his head_ Or rather, smote through his head, for there
is not the least hint given in the story that she cut off his head.
The latter part of the verse, _When she pierced_, &c., may be...
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2 The Song of Deborah and Barak.
1 THEN sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day,
saying,
2 Praise ye the LORD, for the auenging of Israel, when the people
willingly offered themselue...
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She put her hand to the nail, the tent-pin, AND HER RIGHT HAND TO THE
WORKMEN'S HAMMER; AND WITH THE HAMMER SHE SMOTE SISERA, SHE SMOTE OFF
HIS HEAD, WHEN SHE HAD PIERCED AND STRICKEN THROUGH HIS TEMP...
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THE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SISERA...
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THE SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARAK
(vv.1-31)
To celebrate God's great victory over Canaan, Deborah and Barak sang a
remarkable song. Since Deborah's name is mentioned first, it seems
likely that she comp...
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SMOTE:
_ Heb._ hammered...
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24-31 Jael had a special blessing. Those whose lot is cast in the
tent, in a low and narrow sphere, if they serve God according to the
powers he has given them, shall not lose their reward. The mothe...
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HER HAND, i.e. her left hand, as appears from the nature of the thing;
and from the RIGHT HAND, which is opposed to it. _Smote off_, or,
_struck through_, as the LXX. and Syriac render it; or _brake_,...
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Judges 5:26 stretched H7971 (H8799) hand H3027 peg H3489 hand H3225
workmens H6001 hammer H1989 pounded H1986 ...
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THE CURSED AND THE BLESSED (JUDGES 5:23).
Judges 5:23
“Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh,
Curse you bitterly (literally ‘curse cursing') its inhabitants,
Because they came not to the help...
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CONTENTS: Song of Deborah and Barak.
CHARACTERS: God, Deborah, Barak, Jael, Sisera, Shamgar.
CONCLUSION: When we have received mercy from God, we should be speedy
in our returns of praise while the...
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Judges 5:4. _When thou wentest out of Seir._ God came from Teman, in
Seir; he covered the heavens with his glory, and the earth was full of
his praise. Zechariah 3:3. In like manner he now arose to sa...
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_Blessed above women shall Jael _. .. _ be._
THE BLESSING OF JAEL
And whose lips are they which pronounce this blessing? Indeed, it is
Deborah the prophetess who sings this song; it is Deborah, by w...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 5:1 The victory song of Deborah and Barak
praises God for his triumph over the Canaanites on Israel’s behalf
(compare the Song of Solomon 1:1 of Moses and Miriam in...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 5:24 MOST BLESSED OF WOMEN. JAEL is a heroine
for killing Sisera (see Judges 4:17)....
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CHAPTER 5—_Judges 5:23_
THE MISERABLE END OF THE WICKED
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 5:23. CURSE YE MEROZ, etc.] (See above p.
285.) No fellow creature may presume to pronounce a curse on another,
at thei...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 5:1
THEN SANG DEBORAH, etc. The ode which follows was doubtless the
composition of Deborah the prophetess, and was sung by her (as the
gender of the Hebrew verb indicates), assisted...
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And then sang Deborah and Barak the song of Abinoam on that day,
saying [or Barak the son of Abinoam] (Judges 5:1)
So this is the song of Deborah and Barak,
[Hallelujah,] Praise ye the LORD for the a...
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1 Samuel 17:49; 2 Samuel 20:22...