士师记 5:25

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

西西拉求水，雅億給了奶；用珍貴的盤子奉上乳酪。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
西 西 拉 求 水 ， 雅 亿 给 他 奶 子 ， 用 宝 贵 的 盘 子 给 他 奶 油 。

Contextual Overview

²⁴ "May Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, be blessed above all women who live in tents. ²⁵ Sisera asked for water, but Jael gave him milk. In a bowl fit for a ruler, she brought him cream. ²⁶ Jael reached out and took the tent peg. Her right hand reached for the workman's hammer. She hit Sisera! She smashed his head! She crushed and pierced the side of his head! ²⁷ At Jael's feet he sank. He fell, and he lay there. At her feet he sank. He fell. Where Sisera sank, there he fell, dead! ²⁸ "Sisera's mother looked out through the window. She looked through the curtains and cried out, ‘Why is Sisera's chariot so late in coming? Why are sounds of his chariots' horses delayed?' ²⁹ The wisest of her servant ladies answer her, and Sisera's mother says to herself, ³⁰ ‘Surely they are robbing the people they defeated! Surely they are dividing those things among themselves! Each soldier is given a girl or two. Maybe Sisera is taking pieces of dyed cloth. Maybe they are even taking pieces of dyed, embroidered cloth for the necks of the victors!' ³¹ "Let all your enemies die this way, Lord ! But let all the people who love you be as strong as the rising sun!" Then there was peace in the land for forty years.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

asked: Judges 4:19-21

butter: Chemah, may signify buttermilk, which is made by the Arabs by agitating the milk in a leathern bag; and is highly esteemed because of its refreshing and cooling qualities.

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:8 - he took Deuteronomy 32:14 - Butter

Cross-References

Genesis 4:18
Enoch had a son named Irad, Irad had a son named Mehujael, Mehujael had a son named Methushael, and Methushael had a son named Lamech.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He asked water, and she gave him milk,.... That is, Sisera asked it of her, as the Targum expresses it, when he turned into her tent:

she brought him fresh butter in a lordly dish; which signifies either the same, the milk with cream on it, for that is meant by butter; or having first taken off the cream, she gave him milk to drink, and then brought the cream in a dish for him to eat, and thereby the more incline him to sleep; and this she brought in a dish fit for any lord or nobleman to eat out of; in such a polite and courteous manner did she use him, so that he could have no suspicion of her having any ill design against him. R. Jonah, as Kimchi notes, interprets this of a dish of the mighty or lordly ones, of the shepherds, the principal of the flock, as they are called in Jeremiah 25:34, out of which they had used to drink their milk, or eat their cream, and such an one was likely enough to be Jael's tent; from this Hebrew word "sepel", here used, seems to come the Latin word "simpucium" or "simpulum", used in things sacred, and which, according to Pliny t, was an earthen vessel; and so some of the Rabbins, as Kimchi observes, say, this was a new earthen vial; it is very probable it was a broad platter or dish fit for such an use.

t Nat. Hist. l. 35. c. 12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Butter - Rather curdled milk, probably a fermented and intoxicating drink. All these marks of respect and friendship would lull Sisera into security.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 5:25. She brought forth butter — As the word חמאה chemah, here translated butter, signifies disturbed, agitated, c., it is probable that buttermilk is intended. The Arabs form their buttermilk by agitating the milk in a leathery bag, and the buttermilk is highly esteemed because of its refreshing and cooling quality but there is no reason why we may not suppose that Jael gave him cream: Sisera was not only thirsty, but was also exhausted with fatigue; and nothing could be better calculated to quench his thirst, and restore his exhausted strength, than a bowl of cream. I am surprised that Mr. Harmer should see any difficulty in this. It is evident that Deborah wishes to convey the idea that Jael was more liberal and kind than Sisera had requested. He asked for water, and she brought him cream; and she brought it to him, not in an ordinary pitcher, but in the most superb dish or bowl which she possessed. See at the end of Judges 4:24.