士师记 5:30

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

‘莫非他們正在分戰利品？每個勇士分得一兩個女子；西西拉得了彩衣作戰利品，得了一兩件繡花的彩衣作戰利品，為我的頸項，得著繡花的彩衣作戰利品嗎？’

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 莫 非 得 财 而 分 ？ 每 人 得 了 一 两 个 女 子 ？ 西 西 拉 得 了 彩 衣 为 掳 物 ， 得 绣 花 的 彩 衣 为 掠 物 。 这 彩 衣 两 面 绣 花 ， 乃 是 披 在 被 掳 之 人 颈 项 上 的 。

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

Have they not sped: Exodus 15:9, Job 20:5

every man: Heb. the head of a man

of divers: Genesis 37:3, 2 Samuel 13:18, Psalms 45:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 27:16 - needlework Judges 5:19 - they took Judges 15:14 - the Philistines 2 Samuel 1:24 - General 1 Kings 2:9 - hold him 2 Kings 3:23 - now therefore Psalms 124:6 - who hath not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Have they not sped?.... Or "found" u the enemy, Barak and his army, or the spoil of them? no doubt they have:

have they not divided the prey? doubtless they have, which being large, and the captives many, has taken up much of their time to look over, and make an equal and proper division of, and that most certainly is the cause of the delay:

to every man a damsel or two? or "a womb or two w", using both unchaste and contemptuous language x, and pleasing themselves with the virgins of Israel being abused by the common soldiers, which was too frequently the case with the Heathens at gaining a victory:

to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides; suits of clothes of different colours, such as were the works of the women of Sidon y, and those curiously interwoven or wrought with a needle, and that on both sides of the silk or material of which they were made; and so such as were of great worth and esteem, and such it was expected, and with confidence and assurance of it, Sisera would bring with him, and make presents of to his mother and her ladies, or which he would have for his own wear and use, or both:

meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? the general of the army, and the chief men to whom the spoil was brought, and then divided suitably to the rank and quality of every soldier. Pliny z says, the Phrygians first invented the art of needlework; hence the garments wrought, and those that made them, were called after their name; but it is certain it was known by the ancient Hebrews and Canaanites, see

Exodus 26:36.

u הלא ימצאו "nonne invenient", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Vatablus w רחם רחמתים "vulvam vulvas duas", Piscator. x Vid. R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 59. 1. y Julian. Opera, par. 1. crat. 2. p. 94. Vid. Homer. Iliad. 6. ver. 289, 290. z Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 48.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render the latter part of the verse “a booty of dyed garments for Sisera, a booty of dyed garments and of party-colored cloth, a dyed garment and two party-colored clothes for the necks of the booty,” the spoil or booty being either captive damsels, or captive cattle on whose necks these clothes are to be placed (either as ornament or as a burden; compare Judges 8:21, Judges 8:26). But possibly “the necks of the booty” may mean the backs or shoulders (of men or beasts) laden with booty.