Judges 4:7

4:7 I will bring Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to you at the Kishon River, along with his chariots and huge army. ¹  I will hand him over to you.”

Judges 4:13

4:13 he ²  ordered ³  all his chariotry – nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels – and all the troops he had with him to go from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the River Kishon.

Judges 4:1

Deborah Summons Barak

4:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight ⁴  after Ehud’s death.

Judges 18:1

The Tribe of Dan Finds an Inheritance

18:1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place ⁵  to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel. ⁶ 

Psalms 83:9-10

83:9 Do to them as you did to Midian ⁷  –

as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! ⁸ 

83:10 They were destroyed at Endor; ⁹ 

their corpses were like manure ¹⁰  on the ground.

[4:7]  ¹ tn Heb “horde”; “multitude.”

[4:13]  ² tn Heb “Sisera.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[4:13]  ³ tn Or “summoned.”

[4:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “did evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[18:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “an inheritance.”

[18:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”

[83:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “do to them like Midian.”

[83:9]  ⁸ sn The psalmist alludes here to Gideon’s victory over the Midianites (see Judg 7-8) and to Barak’s victory over Jabin’s army, which was led by his general Sisera (Judg 4-5).

[83:10]  ⁹ sn Endor is not mentioned in the accounts of Gideon’s or Barak’s victories, but both battles took place in the general vicinity of the town. (See Y. Aharoni and M. Avi-Yonah, The Macmillan Bible Atlas, 46, 54.) Because Sisera and Jabin are mentioned in v. 9b, many understand them to be the subject of the verbs in v. 10, though they relate v. 10 to Gideon’s victory, which is referred to in v. 9a, 11. (See, for example, Y. Aharoni, The Land of the Bible, 263.)

[83:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they were manure.” In addition to this passage, corpses are compared to manure in 2 Kgs 9:37; Jer 8:2; 9:21; 16:4; 25:33.