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What with the overflowing of the Kishon Judges 5:21, by which numbers
were drowned, and the panic which had seized the defeated army, and
made them an easy prey to the sword of the pursuing Israelites...
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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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The Canaanites fled in a westerly direction to their base, pursued by
Barak, and not one escaped; cf. Exodus 14:28....
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_Barak's Aid to Deborah Judges 4:10-16_
10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up
with ten thousand men at his feet and Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, whic...
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_BUT BARAK PURSUED AFTER THE CHARIOTS, AND AFTER THE HOST, UNTO
HAROSHETH OF THE GENTILES: AND ALL THE HOST OF SISERA FELL UPON THE
EDGE OF THE SWORD; AND THERE WAS NOT A MAN LEFT._
But Barak pursued...
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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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THERE WAS NOT A MAN LEFT. — The massacre in all battles in which the
fugitives have to escape over a river and contend with a storm is
always specially fatal. The memory of this terrible carnage was
p...
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וּ בָרָ֗ק רָדַ֞ף אַחֲרֵ֤י הָ רֶ֨כֶב֙
וְ
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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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_Multitude. Josephus allots Sisara the same number of horse and foot
as he did to Jabin, whom Josue defeated and slew, chap. xi. 4. But
instead of 20,000 chariots, he only gives Sisara 3000, which num...
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Such, Reader, will be, and such even now is, the sure event of the
wars of God's people, who fight under the banner of Jesus. There shall
not a man be able to stand before thee all thy days. So run th...
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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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BUT BARAK PURSUED AFTER THE CHARIOTS, AND AFTER THE HOST, UNTO
HAROSHETH OF THE GENTILES,.... The place from whence they came, and to
which they endeavoured to escape: but he followed them, so close a...
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But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto
Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the
edge of the sword; [and] there was not a man left.
Ver. 16. _There w...
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_There was not a man left_ In the field; for there were some who fled
away, as Sisera did. _The tent of Jael_ For women had their tents
apart from their husbands. And here he probably thought he would...
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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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THE DEFEAT OF SISERA...
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But Barak pursued after the chariots, as their drivers turned in
headlong flight, AND AFTER THE HOST, the infantry of the enemy's army,
UNTO HAROSHETH OF THE GENTILES, to the very gates of their stron...
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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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A MAN:
_ Heb._ unto one...
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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...
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To wit, in the field; for there were some who fled away, as Sisera
did....
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Judges 4:16 Barak H1301 pursued H7291 (H8804) H310 chariots H7393 army
H4264 Harosheth H2800 Hagoyim H1471 army...
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‘ But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, as far
as Harosheth of the Nations. And all the host of Sisera fell by the
edge of the sword and there was not a man left.'
Some of the char...
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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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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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_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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Isaiah 43:17; James 2:13; Joshua 10:19; Joshua 10:20; Joshua 11:8;...
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Left — In the field; for there were some who fled away, as Sisera
did....