Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:17
Sisera went, not to Heber’s tent, but to Joel’s, as more secure from pursuit. Women occupied a separate tent. Genesis 18:6, Genesis 18:10; Genesis 24:67. read more
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Albert Barnes
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:14
Judges 4:14. Deborah said unto Barak, Up Hebrew, Arise, Delay not. If we have ground to believe that God goes before us, we may well go on with courage and cheerfulness. Is not the Lord gone before thee? Namely, as general of thine army, to fight for thee. So Barak went down He did not make use of the advantage which he had of the hill, where he might have been out of the reach of Sisera’s iron chariots, but boldly marched down into the valley, to give him the opportunity of using all... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:16-17
Judges 4:16-17. 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 be more secret and secure than in her husband’s tent, or in any other place in that encampment, as it would have been a much greater insult to Heber for any Israelite to search for him there than in any other of his tents. For there was peace between Jabin and the house of Heber... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 4:1-24
Deliverance under Deborah (4:1-5:31)Hazor, chief city of the north, had been conquered and burnt by Joshua (Joshua 11:10-13). However, not all the people had been destroyed. Having rebuilt Hazor, they now took revenge on the northern tribes, especially Zebulun and Naphtali, and ruled them cruelly for twenty years (4:1-3). (To understand fully how God saved Israel at this time, we must read the historical outline in Chapter 4 together with the song of victory in Chapter 5.)Israel’s deliverer on... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 4:13
gathered: i.e. by proclamation. Compare Judges 4:10 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 4:14
is not . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 4:15
the LORD discomfited = Jehovah discomfited. Compare Psalms 83:9 . The word implies supernatural phenomena. Compare Judges 5:20-22 .Exodus 14:24 . Jos 10:10 . 2 Samuel 22:15 .Psalms 18:15 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 4:16
upon = by. not a man. Hebrew not so much as one. read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 4:17
the tent of Jael. Note, not of Heber: the woman's tent, which itself brought Sisera under the death penalty. But there is nothing to apologize for here. The Author and Giver of life came on Jael as on Ehud, and enabled her to save the daughters of Israel from a fate worse than death. Compare Judges 5:7 , Judges 5:11 , Judges 5:24 , Judges 5:30 . Kenite. Compare Judges 4:11 . read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:16
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, Sisera’s whole force was cut to pieces and broken up. read more