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Judges 4:24

in Judges 4

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

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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

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

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.

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 words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • 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.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Samuel 3:12On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each 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 3:12

    On 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Judges

Jael Kills Sisera — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jael Kills Sisera — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 4 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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