And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet.
Ver. 15. And the Lord discomfited Sisera.] Or, Terrified, as the vulgar Latin hath it, perhaps by thunder and hailstones, as Joshua 10:10 1 Samuel 7:10, where the same Hebrew word is used; or else by some hurry noise made in the air by the angels, as 2 Kings 6:15,18; but something was certainly done from heaven, Jdg 5:20 wherewith the Canaanites were so frightened, that many of them ran into the river Kishon and there perished. Jdg 5:21 So the winds fought for Theodosius in that famous battle against Maximus. a Hence Claudian, a heathen, cried out of him -
“ O nimium dilecte Deo, cui militat aether,
Et coniurati veniunt ad classica venti ”
a Aug., De Civ. Dei, lib. v. cap. 26.