Judges 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the tent of Jael. Note, not of Heber: the woman's tent, which itself brought Sisera under the death penalty. But there is nothing to apologize for here. The Author and Giver of life came on Jael as on Ehud, and enabled her to save the daughters of Israel from. fate worse than death. Compare Judges 5:7; Judges 5:11; Judges 5:24; Judges 5:30.

Kenite. Compare Judges 4:11.

Judges 4:17

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.