Judges 5:28

The mother of Sisera looked down through the window out of the loophole, 1 Saying, Why was his chariot ashamed? 1 Why did the wheels of his chariots tarry? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

In Context

27He rolled down between her feet; 1 He fell and lay between her feet; 1 He bowed and fell: 1 Where he bowed, there he fell dead. 1

29Her wise ladies answered her, 1 And she returned answers to herself, saying, 1

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Cross References

Judges 4:15And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak: and Sisera descended from off his chariot, and fled on his feet.

Proverbs 7:6For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, 1 At one whom she may see of the senseless ones, 1 A young man void of understanding, 1

Song of Solomon 8:14Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe 1 Or a fawn on the mountains of spices.

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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