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士师记 4:15

耶和華用刀使西西拉和所有的車輛與全軍,都在巴拉面前潰亂;西西拉下了車,步行逃跑。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaanites;   Deborah;   Hypocrisy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sisera;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jabin;   Jezreel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Deborah;   Issachar;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jabin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tabor;   Tent;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chariots;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Barak;   Deborah;   Esdraelon;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jabin;   Levi;   Naphtali;   War;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Barak ;   Jabin ;   Sisera ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Barak;   Pithom;   Sisera;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armageddon;   Baal;   Barak;   Megiddo;   Naphtali;   Tabor;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ta'bor;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Discomfit;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Heber;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 使 西 西 拉 和 他 一 切 车 辆 全 军 溃 乱 , 在 巴 拉 面 前 被 刀 杀 败 ; 西 西 拉 下 车 步 行 逃 跑 。

Contextual Overview

10 At Kedesh, Barak called the people of Zebulun and Naphtali together. From them, he gathered ten thousand men to follow him, and Deborah went with him also. 11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses' brother-in-law. Heber had put up his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim, near Kedesh. 12 When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone to Mount Tabor, 13 Sisera gathered his nine hundred iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River. 14 Then Deborah said to Barak, "Get up! Today is the day the Lord will hand over Sisera. The Lord has already cleared the way for you." So Barak led ten thousand men down Mount Tabor. 15 As Barak approached, the Lord confused Sisera and his army and chariots. The Lord defeated them with the sword, but Sisera left his chariot and ran away on foot. 16 Barak and his men chased Sisera's chariots and army to Harosheth Haggoyim. With their swords they killed all of Sisera's men; not one of them was left alive.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 5:20, Judges 5:21, Joshua 10:10, 2 Kings 7:6, 2 Chronicles 13:15-17, Psalms 83:9, Psalms 83:10, Hebrews 11:32

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:7 - General Exodus 14:25 - took off Joshua 10:8 - General Judges 5:28 - Why is Judges 7:9 - I have delivered 1 Samuel 7:10 - discomfited Psalms 33:17 - An horse Jeremiah 46:6 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If Cain's killer is punished seven times, then Lamech's killer will be punished seventy-seven times."
Leviticus 26:18
"‘If after all this you still do not obey me, I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:21
"‘If you still turn against me and refuse to obey me, I will beat you seven times harder. The more you sin, the more you will be punished.
Leviticus 26:24
I will also turn against you. I will punish you seven more times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
I will show my great anger; I will punish you seven more times for your sins.
1 Kings 16:7
The Lord spoke his word against Baasha and his family through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani. Baasha had done many things the Lord said were wrong, which made the Lord very angry. He did the same evil deeds that Jeroboam's family had done before him. The Lord also spoke against Baasha because he killed all of Jeroboam's family.
Psalms 59:11
Lord, our protector, do not kill them, or my people will forget. With your power scatter them and defeat them.
Psalms 79:12
Repay those around us seven times over for their insults to you, Lord.
Proverbs 6:31
But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, and it may cost him everything he owns.
Ezekiel 9:4
He said to the man, "Go through Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who groan and cry about all the hateful things being done among them."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord discomfited Sisera and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host,.... Frightened them, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, or disturbed them with a noise and tumult, as the word signifies; with a noise in the heavens, which were in their ears, as Abarbinel observes, like the noise of a large army, as was the case of the Syrians, 2 Kings 7:6; and they saw, he says, horses and chariots of fire, and the like, which terrified them; and all this he supposes was done before Barak descended from the mountain, so that he had nothing to do when he came but to pursue and kill, whereby it plainly appeared it was the Lord's doing. Josephus i says there was a great tempest of rain and hail, and the wind blew the rain in their faces, which so blinded their eyes, that their slings and arrows were of no use to them; and they that bore armour were so benumbed, that they could not hold their swords. Something of this kind is intimated by Deborah in her song, Judges 5:20; and this was accompanied or followed by a slaughter

with the edge of the sword before Barak; the fright and dread they were put into was increased by the appearance of Barak, who fell upon them in their confusion, and cut them to pieces:

so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet; being very probably swift of foot; and besides thought it safest to quit his chariot, which in the confusion was in danger of being run against by others; as also he might judge he should not be so easily discerned who he was when on foot, as a common soldier, as in his splendid chariot; and this he might do in his fright, not considering his horses were swifter than he: thus Homer represents a Trojan warrior leaping out of his chariot to escape Diomedes, and another as doing the same to get clear of Achilles k.

i Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 5. sect. 1.) sect. 4. k Vid. Iliad. 5. & 20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lighted down off his chariot - Probably his chariot stuck in the morass (see the note at Judges 4:7); or he might leave his chariot in order to mislead his pursuers, and in hope of gaining a place of safety while they were following the track of the chariot-wheels and the bulk of the host.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 4:15. The Lord discomfited Sisera — ויהם יהוה vayiahom Jehovah; the Lord CONFOUNDED, threw them all into confusion, drove them pell-mell-caused chariots to break and overthrow chariots, and threw universal disorder into all their ranks. In this case Barak and his men had little to do but kill and pursue, and Sisera in order to escape, was obliged to abandon his chariot. There is no doubt all this was done by supernatural agency; God sent his angel and confounded them.


 
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