Judges 4:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.c ”

Judges 4:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Battle of the Kishon and the Death of Sisera. The Galilean highlanders rushed like a torrent down the slope of Mt. Tabor, and swept the enemy before them. When Sisera left his chariot and fled...
Judges 4:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

mantle . rug. Hebrew. semikah. occurs only here.
Judges 4:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. Jael went out to meet...
Judges 4:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Sisera fled—to the tent of Jael— The common Arabs so far observe the modes of the east, as to have a separate apartment in their tents for their wives, made by letting down a curtain, or a carpet,...
Judges 4:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. No JFB comment...
Judges 4:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deborah and Barak This deliverance is described a second time in the early poem in Judges 5 (see on Judges 5:1 ). No other narrative describes more clearly the religious gathering of the clans,...
Judges 4:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jael went out to meet Sisera. — This makes it probable that her design was already formed, unless we suppose that Jael as a chieftainess was placed above the ordinary rules which regulate the condu...
Judges 4:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE SIBYL OF MOUNT EPHRAIM Judges 4:1-24 THERE arises now in Israel a prophetess, one of those rare women whose souls burn with enthusiasm and holy purpose when the hearts of men are abject and...
Judges 4:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Woman Executioner Judges 4:14-24 “The Lord discomfited Sisera and all his host.” When General Gordon rode off alone on his camel to break up the camps of the Arab slave-drivers, he realized,...
Judges 4:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

With almost wearisome monotony the story of declension, discipline, and deliverance goes forward. After the eighty years of rest, the children of Israel sinned again, and were delivered into the hand...
Judges 4:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Perhaps Jael was on the lookout, to show mercy to any poor Israelite which might have fled, from the battle. And if so, what must have been her surprise when she found Sisera at her door? Her hospita...
Judges 4:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Jael went out to meet Sisera ,.... Seeing him coming, and knowing him full well, she stepped forward towards him, to invite him into her tent: some think she was looking out, that if she saw Isr...
Judges 4:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. Ver. 18. Turn in, m...
Judges 4:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jael said unto him, Turn in, my lord If Jael now intended to betray and deliver him to Barak, or otherwise to injure him, her addressing him in this manner was dissimulation and treachery, and is n...
Judges 4:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DEBORAH AND BARAK (vv.1-24) Ehud evidently judged Israel during 80 years of peace, but after his death Israel again turned from the Lord's ways, doing evil in His sight. It is not said what e...
Judges 4:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jae...
Judges 4:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Fear not: this was a promise of security, and therefore she cannot be excused from dissimulation and treachery in the manner, though the substance of her act was lawful and worthy.
Judges 4:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 4:18 a ‘And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, ‘Turn in, my lord, turn in to me. Do not be afraid.' Jael went out to meet him. She would see the hunted look of the fugitive a...
Judges 4:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

VICTORY—THE LORD GOING BEFORE.— Judges 4:12-24 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 4:12 . And they showed Sisera, etc.] Sisera was the generalissimo of the King of Hazor; to him, therefore, the report wa...
Judges 4:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 4:1 . When Ehud was dead. This period includes eighty years from the death of Othniel, and was fraught with important events. Chushan's eight years of affliction, and Eglon's eighteen of pr...
Judges 4:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jael went out to meet Sisera. Life’s crises Emphatically are we reminded that life continually brings us to sudden moments in which we must act without time for careful reflection, the spirit o...
Judges 4:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 4:2 Sold them . See Judges 2:14 , note. Jabin king of Hazor . The exact site of Hazor has not been identified with certainty, but it is conjectured by Robinson, with...
Judges 4:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, after the manner of Oriental hospitality, her object being to coax him into the house, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. She wanted to...
Judges 4:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 6:19
Judges 4:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fear not — This was a promise of security, and therefore she cannot be excused from dissimulation and treachery.

Judges 4:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 4:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 4:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 4:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 4:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 4:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 4:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 4:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 4:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 4:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 4:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 4:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 4:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 4:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 4:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 4:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 4:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 4:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 4:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 4:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 4:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 4:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 4:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 4:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 4:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes