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Judges 4:15

Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

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Cross-references (6)

Passages linked to Judges 4:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Joshua 10:10 Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
  • Psalms 83:9-10 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
  • Judges 5:20-21 From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera. The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
  • 2 Kings 7:6 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
  • 2 Chronicles 13:15-17 Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand. Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
  • Hebrews 11:32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all…

Jdg 4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet.

Ver. 15. And the Lord discomfited Sisera.] Or, Terrified, as the vulgar Latin hath it, perhaps by thunder and hailstones, as Jos 10:10 1Sa 7:10, where the same Hebrew word is used; or else by some hurry noise made in the air by the angels, as 2Ki 6:15-18; but something was certainly done from heaven, {Jdg 5:20} wherewith the Canaanites were so frightened, that many of them ran into the river Kishon and there perished. {Jdg 5:21} So the winds fought for Theodosius in that famous battle against Maximus. {a} Hence Claudian, a heathen, cried out of him -

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“ O nimium dilecte Deo, cui militat aether,

Et coniurati veniunt ad classica venti ”

{a} Aug., De Civ. Dei, lib. v. cap. 26.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Lord discomfited Sisera, with great terror and noise,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord discomfited Sisera and all his chariots,…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Discomfited - With great terror and noise, as the…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. The Lord discomfited Sisera] ויהם יהוה vayiahom…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Lighted down off his chariot - Probably his chariot…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Terror. The most dreadful storms of thunder, lightning, &c.,…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the Lord discomfited Sisera--Hebrew, "threw his army into confusion";…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. The Lord discomfited Sisera — Confused and confounded…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. discomfited] lit. ‘confused,’ ‘threw into a panic.’ The…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) Discomfited.—The same word as in Exo_14:24; Jos_10:10. The…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Lord discomfited, etc. Deborah had announced that the…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Yahweh confused Sisera and all his chariots and all…

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