Jdg 4:1-3 - Commentary

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Text -- Judges 4:1-3 (NET)

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Deborah Summons Barak

4:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight after Ehud’s death. 4:2 The Lord turned them over to King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. 4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, and he cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Canaan the region ofeast Mediterranean coastal land from Arvad (modern Lebanon) south to Gaza,the coast land from Mt. Carmel north to the Orontes River

· Ehud son of Bilhan son of Jediael son of Benjamin; a war chief,son of Gera (Bela Benjamin); a judge of Israel before King Saul

· Harosheth-Ha-Goiim a town perhaps near modern Haifa (OS)

· Hazor a town 15 km north of Chinnereth, the NW shore of Galilee,a town of south-eastern Judah,a town of south-eastern Judah 20 km south of Hebron (OS),a town of Ephraim 25 km north of Jerusalem,a collective name for some semi-namadic Arabs as distinct from the bedoin of the desert (OS)

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Jabin king of Hazor in the time of Joshua,king of Canaan in Hazor in the time of Judge Deborah and Baruch

· Sisera the commander of the army of Jabin, king of Canaan in Hazor,a Levite leader of a group of temple servants in Ezra's time

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NET Notes: Jdg 4:1 Heb “did evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

NET Notes: Jdg 4:2 Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”

NET Notes: Jdg 4:3 Heb “with strength.”

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