Jdg 4:17-24 - Commentary

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Text -- Judges 4:17-24 (NET)

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4:17 Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty. 4:18 Jael came out to welcome Sisera. She said to him, “Stop and rest, my lord. Stop and rest with me. Don’t be afraid.” So Sisera stopped to rest in her tent, and she put a blanket over him. 4:19 He said to her, “Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again. 4:20 He said to her, “Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say ‘No.’” 4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died. 4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent, and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead with the tent peg in his temple. 4:23 That day God humiliated King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites. 4:24 Israel’s power continued to overwhelm King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with him.

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Names, People and Places:

· Barak a son of Abinoam in the days of the judges,son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali who defeated Sisera

· 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

· 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)

· Heber son of Beriah of Asher,the Kenite husband of the woman Jael who killed Sisera,son of Mered of Judah by his Jewish wife,son of Elpaal of Benjamin

· 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

· Jael wife of Heber

· Kenite resident(s) of the southeastern hill country of Judah

· 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 4:17 Heb “for there was peace between.”

NET Notes: Jdg 4:18 Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Jdg 4:21 Heb “and exhausted.” Another option is to understand this as a reference to the result of the fatal blow. In this case, the phrase could b...

NET Notes: Jdg 4:22 Heb “fallen, dead.”

NET Notes: Jdg 4:24 Heb “Jabin king of Canaan.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylisti...

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