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Judges 5:24 KJV
Judges · chapter 5 · verse 24
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.Judges 5:24 · King James Version
Judges 5:24 in context
22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
23Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Blessedbârakto kneelH1288 →
- KeniteQêynîya Kenite or member of the tribe of KajinH7017 →
- womenʼishshâha womanH802 →
- HeberCheberCheber, the name of a Kenite and of three IsraelitesH2268 →
- JaelYâʻêlJael, a CanaaniteH3278 →
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Deborah here concludes this triumphant song, I. With the praises of Jael, her sister-heroine, whose valiant act had completed and crowned the victory. She had mentioned her before (Jdg 5:6) as one that would have served her country if it had been in her power;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-31