Judges 4:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The journey thou takest Hebrew, the way thou takest, which may mean the course he had resolved upon, not to go without her. Shall not be for thine honour Though his faith was accepted, yet the weakness of it somewhat eclipsed his glory. The Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman It is greatly to the honour of a conqueror to take the general of the enemy's army, or to kill him with his own hand; which, she tells him, should be denied him, as a small punishment for his diffidence and reluctance to comply with her directions; and as he would not go without a woman, so a woman should take away his honour from him.

Judges 4:9

9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.