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Judges 5:28 KJV
Judges · chapter 5 · verse 28
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?Judges 5:28 · King James Version
Judges 5:28 in context
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.
27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- latticeʼeshnâba latticed windowH822 →
- chariotrekeba vehicleH7393 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- SiseraÇîyçᵉrâʼSisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the NethinimH5516 →
- lookedshâqaphproperly, to lean outH8259 →
- windowchallôwna windowH2474 →
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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