Judges 5:25

He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a bowl fit for nobles she brought him buttermilk.

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He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

In Context

24Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite is to be praised the most among women. She deserves praise above all other women who live in tents.

26With one hand she picked up the tent peg, and with her right hand she held a workman's hammer. She hit Sisera and smashed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.

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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 →

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