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