Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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. read more
士師記 4:17-24 Cunpts
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 4:21
A nail of the tent - One of the spikes by which they fasten to the ground the cords which are attached to the cloth or covering. He was fast asleep and weary - As he lay on one side, and was overwhelmed with sleep through the heat and fatigues of the day, the piercing of his temples must have in a moment put him past resistance. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 4:22
Behold , Sisera lay dead - What impression this made on the victorious Barak is not said: it could not give him much pleasure, especially when he learned the circumstances of his death. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 4:24
The hand of the children of Israel prospered - הלוך ותלך vattelech haloch , it went, going - they followed up this victory, and the consequence was, they utterly destroyed Jabin and his kingdom. It will naturally be expected that something should be said to justify the conduct of Jael: it must be owned that she slew Sisera in circumstances which caused the whole transaction to appear exceedingly questionable. They are the following: - There was peace between her family... read more
Albert Barnes
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
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:20
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 of truth is fully revealed. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:21
If we can overlook the treachery and violence which belonged to the morals of the age and country, and bear in mind Jael’s ardent sympathies with the oppressed people of God, her faith in the right of Israel to possess the land in which they were now slaves, her zeal for the glory of Yahweh as against the gods of Canaan, and the heroic courage and firmness with which she executed her deadly purpose, we shall be ready to yield to her the praise which is her due. See Judges 3:30 note. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:24
See the margin. The meaning is, that Barak’s great victory was the beginning of a successful resistance to Jabin, by which the Israelites recovered their independence, and finally broke the Canaanite power. Accordingly, we hear no more of Canaanite domination in the Book of Judges. 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
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 4:19
She opened a bottle of milk - She gave more than he requested; and her friendship increased his confidence and security. read more