Judges 5:25
His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
In Context
24Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!
Matthew Henry on Judges 5:25-31
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 she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 28 The… Read the whole commentary →