Judges 4:17

And Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

In Context

16And Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth-Goim; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not one was left.

18And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in to her, into the tent, and she covered him with the quilt.

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Cross References

Judges 5:24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, Blessed above women in the tent!

Job 18:7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

Isaiah 57:21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Matthew Henry on Judges 4:11-17

Defeat of Sisera. ( b. c. 1258.) 10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him. 11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh. 12 And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. 13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots… Read the whole commentary →

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