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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 4:9

The Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman - Does not this mean, If I go with thee, the conquest shall be attributed to me, and thou wilt have no honor? Or, is it a prediction of the exploit of Jael? In both these senses the words have been understood. It seems, however, more likely that Jael is intended. The Septuagint made a remarkable addition to the speech of Barak: "If thou wilt go with me I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go; Ὁτι ουκ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:4

Deborah, a prophetess - Her name, meaning a bee, is the same as that of Rebekah’s nurse (marginal reference). The reason of her preeminence is added. She was “a woman, a prophetess,” like Miriam Exodus 15:20; Huldah 2 Kings 22:14, etc. In Judges 4:6, Judges 4:9,Judges 4:14, we have examples of her prophetic powers, and in Judg. 5 a noble specimen of prophetic song. Though the other Judges are not called prophets, yet they all seem to have had direct communications from God, either of knowledge... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:5

She dwelt - Rather, “she sat,” namely, to judge the people Judges 4:10, but not in the usual place, “the gate” Ruth 4:1-2; Proverbs 22:22. It suited her character, and the wild unsafe times better, that she should sit under a palm-tree in the secure heights of Mount Ephraim, between Ramah and Bethel (Judges 20:33 note). This verse shows that the Judges exercised the civil as well as military functions of rulers 1 Samuel 7:15-17. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:6

The name Barak signifies lightning, an appropriate name for a warrior. It is found also as Barca or Barcas, among Punic proper names. Compare Mark 3:17. On Kedesh-Naphtali see the marginal reference.Deborah speaks of God as Yahweh the God of Israel, because she speaks, as it were, in the presence of the pagan enemies of Israel, and to remind the Israelites, in the day of their distress, that He was ready to perform the mercy promised to their fathers, and to remember His holy covenant. This... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:7

The brook or stream Kishon (Nahr Mukutta), so called from its winding course, caused by the dead level of the plain of Esdraelon through which it flows, rises, in respect to one of its sources or feeders, in Mount Tabor, and flows nearly due west through the plain, under Mount Carmel, and into the Bay of Acre. In the early or eastern part of its course, before it is recruited by the springs on Carmel, it is nothing but a torrent, often dry, but liable to swell very suddenly and dangerously, and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:8

Barak, like Gideon Judges 6:15, Judges 6:36, Judges 6:40, and Abraham Genesis 15:2-3; Genesis 17:18, and Moses Exodus 4:10, Exodus 4:13, and Peter Matthew 14:30-31, exhibited some weakness of faith at first. But this only makes his example more profitable for our encouragement, though he himself suffered some lost by his weakness Judges 4:9. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:9

Mark the unhesitating faith and courage of Deborah, and the rebuke to Barak’s timidity, “the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman” (Jael, Judges 4:22). For a similar use of a weak instrument, that the excellency of the power might be of God, compare the history of Gideon and his 300, David and his sling, Shamgar and his ox-goad, Samson and the jawbone of the ass. (See 1 Corinthians 1:26, 1 Corinthians 1:31.) Barak would probably think the woman must be Deborah. The prophecy was only... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:4

Judges 4:4. A prophetess Such a one as Miriam, Exodus 15:23; Huldah, 2 Kings 22:14, and divers others; but the word prophets, or prophetesses, is ambiguous, sometimes being meant of persons extraordinarily inspired by God, and endowed with the power of working miracles, and foretelling things to come; and sometimes of persons endowed with special gifts or graces, for the better understanding and discoursing about the word and mind of God. Of this sort were the sons of the prophets, or... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:5

Judges 4:5. And she dwelt Or, as the Septuagint and Vulgate understand it, she sat: she had her judgment-seat in the open air, under the shadow of that tree, which was an emblem of the justice she administered there: thriving and growing against opposition, as the palm-tree does under pressures. Came to her To have their suits and causes determined by her sentence. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:6

Judges 4:6. Called Barak By virtue of that power which God had given her, and the people owned in her. Out of Kedesh-naphtali So called, to distinguish it from other places of that name, one in Judah, and another in Issachar. Hath not the Lord, &c. That is, assuredly God hath commanded thee; this is not the fancy of a weak woman, which peradventure thou mightest despise; but the command of the great God by my mouth, Mount Tabor A place most fit for his purpose, as being in the... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 4:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 4:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:6

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