Judges 5:25 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 5:25

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

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ASV

He asked water, andshe gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

WEB

He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.

YLT

Water he asked--milk she gave; In a lordly dish she brought near butter.

DBT

He asked water, she gave milk; In the nobles' bowl she brought forth cream.

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Judges 4:19
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
Genesis 18:8
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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No (say others), it was milk that had the butter still in it; we call it cream. Whichsoever it was, it was probably the best her house afforded; and, to set it off, she brought it in a lordly dish, such as she called so, the finest she had, and better than she ordinarily used at her own table.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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