Judges 4:19-21
Butter - Rather curdled milk, probably a fermented and intoxicating drink. All these marks of respect and friendship would lull Sisera into secur...
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth (s) butter in a lordly dish. (s) Some read churned milk in a great cup.
The Blessing of Jael. Jael's deed is unhesitatingly and emphatically approved. While the oppressor of Israel stood in her tent, drinking the milk s...
butter. See note on Judges 4:19 .
DISCOURSE: 264 JAEL AND SISERA Judges 5:24-27 . Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women...
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She brought forth butter - As the word חמאה chemah, here transl...
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Butter , х chem'aah ( H2529 ), curdled milk; Septuagint,...
Deborah's Triumph Song This song celebrates the victory of Judges 4 but from the point of view, not of a later annalist, but of a contemporary p...
Butter ] Properly sour milk or curds. Lordly dish ] A bowl fit for nobles.
Butter. — Rather, curdled milk. In a lordly dish. — Rather, in a dish of the nobles: sephel, a splendid bowl, reserved for great occasions. Al...
DEBORAH'S SONG: A DIVINE VISION Judges 5:1-31 THE song of Deborah and Barak is twofold, the first portion, ending with the eleventh verse, a ch...
at the Mercy of Midian Judges 5:24-31 ; Judges 6:1-6 What a contrast our reading suggests between those that love the Lord and go from strengt...
Here we have preserved for us the great song of Deborah, composed and sung in celebration of the victory. It is full of fire and passion and is a rem...
What a very high commendation hath the Holy Ghost been pleased to bestow on Jael? There is but one beside of whom the same is said, and the occasion...
He asked water, and she gave him milk ,.... That is, Sisera asked it of her, as the Targum expresses it, when he turned into her tent: she brought...
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Ver. 25. She gave him milk. ] See Judges 4:19 . Butter...
He asked water , &c. The original here is very poetical and elegant, and not badly imitated in our translation of it, if it were placed in hemis...
THE SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARAK (vv.1-31) To celebrate God's great victory over Canaan, Deborah and Barak sang a remarkable song. Since Deborah's...
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25 He asked water, and s...
Butter, or, cream , i.e. the choicest of her milk; so the same thing is repeated in differing words. In a lordly dish; which you are not to unde...
The Cursed and the Blessed ( Judges 5:23-27 ). Judges 5:23 “Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh, Curse you bitterly (literally ‘curse...
CHAPTER 5— Judges 5:23-31 THE MISERABLE END OF THE WICKED CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 5:23 . Curse ye Meroz, etc.] (See above p. 285.) No fellow...
Judges 5:4 . When thou wentest out of Seir. God came from Teman, in Seir; he covered the heavens with his glory, and the earth was full of his pra...
Blessed above women shall Jael . .. be. The blessing of Jael And whose lips are they which pronounce this blessing? Indeed, it is Deborah th...
EXPOSITION Judges 5:1 Then sang Deborah , etc. The ode which follows was doubtless the composition of Deborah the prophetess, and was sung...
The Defeat and Death of Sisera
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter, the very thickest, the most excellent cream, in a lordly dish, in a show-bowl, the...
Butter — Or, cream, that is, the choicest of her milk: so the same thing is repeated in different words. Lordly dish — Which you are not to underst...
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.