Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
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Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
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And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
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And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him: 'Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest.' And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
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Passages linked to Judges 4:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 17:3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
- 2 Samuel 17:10-15 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him. Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.” Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom. Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain So he saw that a woman had the honor,…
So he saw that a woman had the honor, as Deborah prophesied.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael…
Jdg 4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail [was] in his temples.
Ver. 22. Sisera lay dead.] By the hand of woman, which those warriors take for no small disgrace. {Jdg 9:54} Heber was perhaps in the army of the Israelites. We read of a brave Hungarian woman whose courage far exceeded the weakness of her sex: for at the siege of Buda, she thrusting in amongst the soldiers upon the top of the fort, with a great scythe in her hand, at one blow struck off two of the Turks’ heads, as they were climbing up the rampart. {a}
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{a} Turk. Hist., 741.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera,.... Knowing the way…
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera,.... Knowing the way he took, at least as he supposed:
Jael came out to meet him; as she did Sisera, but with greater pleasure:
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and said unto him, come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest; for she full well knew whom he was in pursuit of:
and when he came into her tent; at her invitation:
behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples: which she did not attempt to draw out, but left it there, that it might be seen in what way she had dispatched him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. Behold, Sisera lay dead] What impression this…
Verse 22. Behold, Sisera lay dead] What impression this made on the victorious Barak is not said: it could not give him much pleasure, especially when he learned the circumstances of his death.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. Behold, Sisera lay dead — As Barak gazed…
22. Behold, Sisera lay dead — As Barak gazed on the bloody sight, and saw that Sisera had perished by a woman’s hand, he realized the fulfilment of Deborah’s words, (Jdg_4:9,) “The journey shall not be for thine honour, for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. And, behold, as Barak pursued] hardly does justice…
22. And, behold, as Barak pursued] hardly does justice to the original, ‘lo Barak, in pursuit of Sisera’; a remarkable coincidence! cf. Jdg_11:34, Gen_29:6. According to Jdg_4:16 Barak with his tribesmen pursued the Canaanites to Harosheth; Sisera’s hiding-place must have lain more or less on the route. On the difficulties of the narrative as it stands see above Jdg_4:17 n.
23, 24 give Rd’s conclusion of the story; Jdg_5:31 b is the finishing touch.
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God subdued] Instead of God (Elohim) the narrative uses regularly the Lord (Jehovah). For subdued see on Jdg_3:30. It is generally supposed that the stories of the Judges were closed with a brief notice of the subjugation of the oppressors, before the Dtc. redactor expanded these conclusions in his own manner; perhaps the words Elohim subdued … formed part of this pre-Deuteronomic editorial work.
Jabin the king of Canaan] See on Jdg_4:2.
prevailed more and more against] bore harder and harder upon, cf. Jdg_3:10.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) Behold, Sisera lay dead.—Thus the glory, such as…
(22) Behold, Sisera lay dead.—Thus the glory, such as it was, of having slain the general of the enemy passed to a woman (Jdg_4:9). The scene which thus describes the undaunted murderess standing in the tent between the dead and the living chieftains—and glorying in the decision which had led her to fling to the winds every rule of Eastern morality and decorum—is a very striking one.
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