--- title: "Bullinger" description: "children = sons. evil = the evil: i.e. idolatry. See App-44 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . Jabin. Another king. Compare Joshua 11:1-10 . which" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/judges/4" --- **children** = sons. **evil** = the evil: i.e. idolatry. See App-44 . **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **Jabin.** Another king. Compare [Joshua 11:1-10](../../../kjv/joshua/11/1-10) . **which** = and he. **twenty years.** A long time to wait for deliverance. **a prophetess.** Not therefore a "judge "in the strict sense of the title. Like Miriam, [Exodus 15:20](../../../kjv/exodus/15/20) ; Huldah, [2 Kings 22:14](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/14) . Compare her prophecy in verses: [Judges 4:7](../../../kjv/judges/4/7) , [Judges 4:9](../../../kjv/judges/4/9) . **she.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "and she". Note the two women connected with Barak, Deborah and Jael, verses: [Judges 4:17-21](../../../kjv/judges/4/17-21) . See note on [Judges 4:17](../../../kjv/judges/4/17) , and Compare [Judges 5:7](../../../kjv/judges/5/7) , [Judges 5:11](../../../kjv/judges/5/11) , [Judges 5:24](../../../kjv/judges/5/24) , [Judges 5:30](../../../kjv/judges/5/30) . **at that time.** Yet Israel was "mightily oppressed", contrary to [Judges 2:18](../../../kjv/judges/2/18) . The words "she judged" state a fact: but do they imply a Divine appointment to the office? She was "a prophetess", but was she "a judge" in the proper sense of the word? **dwelt** = sat [as judge]: near where her namesake, Rebekah's nurse, died. [Genesis 35:8](../../../kjv/genesis/35/8) . **Hath not. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **river Kishon.** Compare [Psalms 83:9](../../../kjv/psalms/83/9) , [Psalms 83:10](../../../kjv/psalms/83/10) . **hand.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "hands". **called:** i.e. by proclamation. **Hobab.** Compare [Numbers 10:29](../../../kjv/numbers/10/29) . **unto the plain.** Or, at the oak. [Joshua 19:33](../../../kjv/joshua/19/33) . **gathered:** i.e. by proclamation. Compare [Judges 4:10](../../../kjv/judges/4/10) . **is not . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **the LORD discomfited** = Jehovah discomfited. Compare [Psalms 83:9](../../../kjv/psalms/83/9) . The word implies supernatural phenomena. Compare [Judges 5:20-22](../../../kjv/judges/5/20-22) .[Exodus 14:24](../../../kjv/exodus/14/24) . Jos 10:10 . [2 Samuel 22:15](../../../kjv/2-samuel/22/15) .[Psalms 18:15](../../../kjv/psalms/18/15) . **upon** = by. **not a man.** Hebrew not so much as one. **the tent of Jael.** Note, not of Heber: the woman's tent, which itself brought Sisera under the death penalty. But there is nothing to apologize for here. The Author and Giver of life came on Jael as on Ehud, and enabled her to save the daughters of Israel from a fate worse than death. Compare [Judges 5:7](../../../kjv/judges/5/7) , [Judges 5:11](../../../kjv/judges/5/11) , [Judges 5:24](../../../kjv/judges/5/24) , [Judges 5:30](../../../kjv/judges/5/30) . **Kenite.** Compare [Judges 4:11](../../../kjv/judges/4/11) . **mantle** = rug. Hebrew. *semikah.* occurs only here. **bottle** = skin. **milk.** Rendered "butter" in [Judges 5:25](../../../kjv/judges/5/25) ; probably = buttermilk, much used in the East. **door** = entrance. **No** = there is not. **nail of the tent** = a tent peg. Constantly tents are taken down and put up by the women to the present day. **So he died.** The first often recorded deaths at the hands of women: Sisera ([Judges 4:21](../../../kjv/judges/4/21) ); Abimelech ([Judges 9:53](../../../kjv/judges/9/53) . [2 Samuel 11:21](../../../kjv/2-samuel/11/21) ); Sheba ([2 Samuel 20:22](../../../kjv/2-samuel/20/22) ); the harlot's child ([1 Kings 3:19](../../../kjv/1-kings/3/19) ); prophets ([1 Kings 18:4](../../../kjv/1-kings/18/4) ); Naboth ([1 Kings 21:9](../../../kjv/1-kings/21/9) , [1 Kings 21:10](../../../kjv/1-kings/21/10) ); a son by his mother ([2 Kings 6:29](../../../kjv/2-kings/6/29) ); seed royal ([2 Kings 11:1](../../../kjv/2-kings/11/1) . [2 Chronicles 22:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/10) ); Haman's sons ([Esther 9:13-14](../../../kjv/esther/9/13-14) ); John Baptist ([Matthew 14:8](../../../kjv/matthew/14/8) ). **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **prospered.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton* Hebrew going on went on. 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