Judges 4:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Judges 4:17 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 69:22
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Isaiah 57:21
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Judges 5:24
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Job 12:19-21
He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. …
Job 40:11-12
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. …

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Hazor Heber Jabin Jael Kenites

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-24)

We have seen the army of the Canaanites totally 3434 routed. It is said (Ps. 83:9, 10, where the defeat of this army is pleaded as a precedent for God’s doing the like in after times) that they became as dung for the earth. Now here we have, I. The fall of their general, Sisera, captain of the host, in whom, it is likely, Jabin their king put an entire confidence, and therefore was not himself pre…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17-18. Sisera fled ... to the tent of Jael--According to the usages of nomadic people, the duty of receiving the stranger in the sheik’s absence devolves on his wife, and the moment the stranger is admitted into his tent, his claim to be defended or concealed from his pursuers is established.