Judges 5:25
He begged her for water, and she gave him milk, and she offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
In Context
24Blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. And blessed is she in her tabernacle.
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 →