Judges 5:10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 5:6-11

Here, I. Deborah describes the distressed state of Israel under the tyranny of Jabin, that the greatness of their trouble might make their salvation appear the more illustrious and the more gracious (Jdg. 5:6): From the days of Shamgar, who did some thing towards the deliverance of Israel from the Philistines, to the days of Jael, the present day, in which Jael has so signalized herself, the country has been in a manner desolate. 1. No trade. For want of soldiers to protect men of business in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 5:10

Speak, ye that ride on white asses ,.... Though in some countries, as in ours, it is reckoned disgraceful to ride on asses; so Leo Africanus F2 Descriptio Africae, l. 5. p. 574. makes mention of a preacher in Africa, who was called the ass rider; because he was continually, sitting on an ass; yet in Judea, where there were no horses, or very few, it was accounted honourable; so it was in the time of our Lord; for his riding on an ass to Jerusalem was not mean and disgraceful, but... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 5:10

Ye that ride on white asses - Perhaps צחרות אתנות athonoth tsechoroth should be rendered sleek or well-fed asses; rendered asinos nitentes , shining asses, by the Vulgate. Ye that sit in judgment - מדין על ישבי yoshebey al middin ; some have rendered this, ye who dwell in Middin. This was a place in the tribe of Judah, and is mentioned Joshua 15:61 . And walk by the way - Persons who go from place to place for the purposes of traffic. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 5:10

Ye that ride on white donkeys ... - i. e. nobles or magistrates. Deborah appeals to the classes mentioned in Judges 5:6-7, to bear witness to the happy change that had followed the overthrow of Jabin.That sit in judgment - Rather “that sit on saddles, or horse-cloths,” a further description of those who ride on asses. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 5:10

Judges 5:10. Speak ye Celebrate the praise of our mighty God, and give him thanks. The word שׂיחו , sichu, however, here rendered, Speak ye, more properly signifies to consider, meditate, or reflect deeply, namely, on the miserable condition they were in before, and on the great deliverance God had wrought out for them. Ye that ride on white asses That is, magistrates and nobles, who used to do so, Judges 10:4; Judges 12:14. These could not appear in any splendour during the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 5:1-31

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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Judges 5:10

"Tell of it, ye that ride on white asses, Ye that sit on rich carpets, And ye that walk by the way. Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, Even the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.""Ye that ride on white asses ... sit on rich carpets" (Judges 5:10). Only rulers, magistrates and the wealthy customarily rode on white asses. The "rich carpets" were somewhat like... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Judges 5:10

Judges 5:10. Speak, ye that ride on white asses— These are supposed to have been asses of the Zebra kind צחר zachar. The author of the Observations, however, (p. 268.) is of opinion, "that these asses are not called white on account of their natural colour, but rather from their caparisons, according to the custom among the Arabs to this day, who use saddles of wood in riding, and have always, as a part of their riding furniture, a cloth which they call the hiran, about six ells long, which... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Judges 5:10

10. Speak—that is, join in this song of praise. white asses—Those which are purely white are highly prized, and being costly, are possessed only by the wealthy and great. Ye that sit in judgment—has been rendered, "ye that repose on tapestries." read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 5:1-31

2. Deborah’s song of victory ch. 5One writer called this song "the finest masterpiece of Hebrew poetry" that "deserves a place among the best songs of victory ever written." [Note: Robert H. Pfeiffer, Introduction to the Old Testament, p. 326.] It is the equivalent of a victory celebration when the troops come home (cf. Exodus 15; Psalms 68)."Observe that each of the three major sections centers around a basic contrast: in Judges 5:2-11 c, the explosive God and humiliated people; in Judges 5:11... read more

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