Judges 4:24
in Judges 4And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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.
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.
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This verse in Judges 4
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe 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.
This site's exposition
as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael
on Judges 4:22-24
Barak arrives to be shown the man he came for, and the word of verse 9 is discharged in front of him. Albert Barnes holds that Barak would have taken the woman of that prophecy for Deborah, and that the saying was explained only by its fulfilment. Verse 23 makes God the subject of the victory, and verses 23 and 24 name Jabin three times in two sentences as the twenty years of verse 3 are worked off. The formula the land had rest is withheld until 5:31, where it falls for the third and last time in the book and never returns.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
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,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
See the margin. The meaning is, that Barak’s great victory was the beginning of a successful resistance to Jabin, by which the Israelites recovered their independence, and finally broke the Canaanite power. Accordingly, we hear no more of Canaanite domination in the Book of Judges.
The words behind it
17 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתֵּ֜לֶךְ | vatelekh | and it went | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| יַ֤ד | yad | [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| בְּנֵֽי־ | benei- | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| הָל֣וֹךְ | halokh | going | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| וְקָשָׁ֔ה | vekashah | and hard | H7186 → | |
| עַ֖ל | ʾal | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| יָבִ֣ין | yavin | Jabin | H2985 → | 8 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ־ | melekh- | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| כְּנָ֑עַן | kenaan | Canaan | H3667 → | 94 times |
| עַ֚ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | that | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הִכְרִ֔יתוּ | hikhritu | they cut off | H3772 → | 288 times |
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יָבִ֥ין | yavin | Jabin | H2985 → | 8 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ־ | melekh- | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| כְּנָֽעַן׃ פ | kenaan | Canaan | H3667 → | 94 times |
וַתֵּ֜לֶךְand it went
vatelekhH1980 →1546 times
יַ֤ד[the] hand of
yadH3027 →1618 times
בְּנֵֽי־[the] people of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
הָל֣וֹךְgoing
halokhH1980 →1546 times
וְקָשָׁ֔הand hard
vekashahH7186 →
עַ֖לon
ʾalH5921 →5755 times
יָבִ֣יןJabin
yavinH2985 →8 times
מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of
melekh-H4428 →2525 times
כְּנָ֑עַןCanaan
kenaanH3667 →94 times
עַ֚דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רthat
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
הִכְרִ֔יתוּthey cut off
hikhrituH3772 →288 times
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
יָבִ֥יןJabin
yavinH2985 →8 times
מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of
melekh-H4428 →2525 times
כְּנָֽעַן׃ פCanaan
kenaanH3667 →94 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Samuel 3:12On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.
it leads to
- 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.
- 1 Samuel 2:27–36
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.