Judges 4:24

And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.

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KJV

And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

ASV

And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

YLT

and the hand of the sons of Israel goeth, going on and becoming hard on Jabin king of Canaan, till that they have cut off Jabin king of Canaan.

DBT

And the hand of the children of Israel ever advanced, and prevailed against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had cut off Jabin king of Canaan.

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And the hand of the children of Israel, prospered and prevailed against Jabin, the king of Canaan,.... They continued their wars with him, in which they were successful: until they had destroyed Jabin, king of Canaan; took him, and put him to death, and took his cities, and destroyed the inhabitants of them, and so acted more agreeably to the declared will of God, that they should not spare the Canaanites, but destroy them.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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The hand of the children of Israel prospered - ותלך הלוך vattelech haloch, it went, going - they followed up this victory, and the consequence was, they utterly destroyed Jabin and his kingdom. It will naturally be expected that something should be said to justify the conduct of Jael: it must be owned that she slew Sisera in circumstances which caused the whole transaction to appear exceedingly questionable. They are the following: - 1. There was peace between her family and the king of Canaan.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

3 And the children of Israel cried unto the L ORD : for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. Israel backsliding from God: They again did evil in his sight, forsook his service, and worshipped idols; for this was the sin which now most easily beset them,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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1 Samuel 3:12
On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.

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Who & where

PlaceThe LevantCanaanThe land of promise — walked and altar-marked by the patriarchs but not yet possessed.

About this book

Jael Kills Sisera — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

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.

Canon: Old Testament
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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1 Samuel 3:12
On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.
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- 1 Samuel 2:27–36
  Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s…
- Joshua 23:15
  But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from…
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Zechariah 1:6
  But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according…
- Luke 21:33
  Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

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