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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 5:12

Awake, awake; stir up thyself and all that is within thee to admire and praise the Lord. Lead thy captivity captive: how could this be done when there was none of them left? Judges 4:16. Answ. 1. None were left to make head against them. 2. None is oft put for few, and those few might be taken after the battle, and carried captive, and led in triumph, and afterward slain. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 5:12-22

CHAPTER 5.—Judges 5:12-23THE THANKSGIVING SONG.—ContinuedCRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 5:12. Awake, awake, Deborah, etc.] Having adverted in the above paragraph to the high pitch of prosperity, which Israel might naturally claim, as the nation of Jehovah—to what it had guiltily lost—and to what, through God’s covenant mercy, had been won back, the singer now addresses herself to the thrilling history connected with the regaining of this prosperity, and the vast importance to the cause of God of the... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Judges 5:12

Songs of Deliverance July 28th, 1867 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates." Judges 5:11 . Deborah sang concerning the overthrow of Israel's enemies, and the deliverance vouchsafed to the tribes: we have a far richer theme for music;... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 5:1-31

Chapter 5And 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 avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 5:1-31

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. Habakkuk 3:3. In like manner he now arose to save Israel. Judges 5:7 . The villages ceased. In this time of sore oppression, the people fled to walled towns for safety and defence. Judges 5:8 . Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand? The enemies and oppressors had stripped the land of armour; this accounts for Shamgar’s... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 5:12-22

Judges 5:12-22Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive.MagnificatI. First, then, a stirring up, of all our powers to praise God, according to the words of the holy woman in the text, “Awake, awake”--repeated yet again--“Awake, awake.”1. What is there that we need to awaken if we would praise God? I reply, we ought to arouse all the bodily powers. Our flesh is sluggish; we have been busy with the world, our limbs have grown fatigued, but... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 5:12

Jdg 5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. Ver. 12. Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake.] As the cock clapping first his own sides awakeneth himself, and then calleth up others; so doth Deborah here, and finding haply some indisposition to this duty of praising God, she setteth the thorn to the breast, with the nightingale. Her good soul was unsatisfiable; and, like an earthly angel, she sings perpetual... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 5:12

Deborah: Psalms 57:8, Psalms 103:1, Psalms 103:2, Psalms 108:2, Isaiah 51:9, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 52:2, Isaiah 60:1, Jeremiah 31:26, 1 Corinthians 15:34, Ephesians 5:14 lead: Psalms 68:18, Isaiah 14:2, Isaiah 33:1, Isaiah 49:24-Ezekiel :, Ephesians 4:8, 2 Timothy 2:26 Reciprocal: Exodus 35:21 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Judges 5:12

Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.Awake — Stir up thyself and all that is within thee, to admire and praise the Lord. This work needs and well deserves the utmost liveliness and vigour of soul.Lead captivity captive — How could this be done, when there was none of them left? chap4:161. None were left to make head against them2. None is often put for few, and those few might be taken after the battle, and carried... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 5:12

12. Awake, awake Having in the previous verses sung of the sublime coming of Jehovah from Sinai to deliver the nation from its fallen state, and having called on all classes to join her in the song, she now begins her vivid picture of the war with Sisera with this impassioned introduction. Arise, O Barak In the singing of this song, Deborah, leading the women, and Barak, leading the men, responded to each other. Lead captive thy captives This represents the triumph as complete, and the... read more