23So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
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It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
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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