And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, х no'd (H4997) hechaalaab (H2461)] - a skin or leather bag, so called from being shaken, in order to make the milk into butter. [Septuagint, eenoixe teen askon tou galaktos.] Josephus says ('Antiquities,' b. 5:, ch. 5:, sec. 4) it was sour milk, or what the Arabs call "leban"; a favourite and refreshing beverage.
And covered him. Sisera reckoned on this as a pledge of his safety, especially in the tent of a friendly sheikh. This pledge was the strongest that could be sought or obtained, after he had partaken of refreshments, and been introduced into the inner or wife's apartment-a sanctuary inviolable by the intrusion even of her nearest relations, unless by her express permission. Eucouraged by all these circumstances, Sisera surrendered himself to sleep, after a day of exhausting fatigue. Josephus ascribes his profound slumbers to the copious amount of sour milk that he had taken.