士師記 4:17-18 RCUVTS

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 4:12-24

VICTORY—THE LORD GOING BEFORE.—Judges 4:12-24CRITICAL 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, that the revolt of the tribes of Israel from under the hand of Jabin his master had come to a head, and that an army was being collected at Mount Tabor under the captaincy of Barak, with the view of breaking their yoke of servitude. Of this God made use to fulfil His promise, “I will draw to thee,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 4:1-24

Chapter 4Verse 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 king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel ( Judges 4:1-3... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 4:1-24

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 presidency are included in the eighty years. Judges 4:2 . Jabin king of Canaan, a descendant or relation of Jabin mentioned in Joshua 11:0. He reigned in Hazor, which Joshua had burned; but the Canaanite returning, had restored it as their metropolis. Judges 4:4 . Deborah, a prophetess. She... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 4:18-24

Judges 4:18-24Jael went out to meet Sisera.Life’s crisesEmphatically are we reminded that life continually brings us to sudden moments in which we must act without time for careful reflection, the spirit of our past flashing out in some quick deed or word of fate. Sisera’s past drove him in panic over the hills to Zaanaim. Jael’s past came with her to the door of the tent; and the two as they looked at each other in that tragic moment were at one, without warning, in a crisis for which every... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 4:17

Jdg 4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for [there was] peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. Ver. 17. For there was peace, ] i.e., Non erant simultates aut bella inter illos, a there was no open hostility: or if there were a league, the Emperor of the world, saith Ferus, had now disannulled it, as having proscribed Sisera, and declared that he should be destroyed, and that by a woman. a Jun. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 4:18

Jdg 4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. Ver. 18. Turn in, my lord, turn in to me. ] Fair words make fools fain: Vide cui fidas. Jael is commended by Deborah for what she did. Jdg 5:24 “ Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? ” She covered him with a mantle. ] Stragula villosa, with a rug or blanket, to get him the sooner asleep. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 4:17

fled: Job 12:19-Ecclesiastes :, Job 18:7-2 Kings :, Job 40:11, Job 40:12, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 107:40, Proverbs 29:23, Amos 5:19, Amos 5:20 Jael: Judges 5:6, Judges 5:24 peace: Psalms 69:22, Isaiah 57:21 Reciprocal: Joshua 11:1 - Jabin Judges 1:16 - the Kenite Judges 4:9 - into 1 Samuel 7:14 - peace Job 27:22 - he would fain flee Amos 2:16 - flee read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 4:18

Jael: 2 Kings 6:19 mantle: or, rug, or blanket Reciprocal: Genesis 38:1 - turned Judges 5:6 - Jael read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Judges 4:17

Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.The tent of Jael — For women had their tents apart from their husbands. And here he thought to lurk more securely than in her husband's tent.Peace — Not a covenant of friendship, which they were forbidden to make with that cursed people, but only a cessation of hostilities, which he afforded them because they were peaceable... read more