Richter 4:3

Schlachter Bibel

Da schrieen die Kinder Israel zum Herrn ; denn er hatte neunhundert eiserne Wagen, und er zwang die Kinder Israel mit Gewalt zwanzig Jahre lang.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und die Kinder Israel schrieen zu Jehova; denn er hatte neunhundert eiserne Wagen, und er bedr�ckte die Kinder Israel mit Gewalt zwanzig Jahre.

Lutherbible (1912)
Und die Kinder Israel schrieen zum HERRN; denn er hatte neunhundert eiserne Wagen und zwang die Kinder Israel mit Gewalt zwanzig Jahre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cried: Judges 3:9, Judges 3:15, Judges 10:16, 1 Samuel 7:8, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 78:34, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 2:28

chariots: Judges 1:19, Joshua 17:16

mightily: Judges 5:8, Deuteronomy 28:29, Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48, Psalms 106:42

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:7 - General Leviticus 25:14 - General Numbers 10:9 - oppresseth Deuteronomy 20:1 - horses Deuteronomy 28:43 - General Judges 3:31 - Israel Judges 4:13 - nine 1 Samuel 12:10 - And they 2 Samuel 7:10 - as beforetime 1 Kings 20:1 - and horses 1 Chronicles 17:10 - And since 1 Chronicles 19:7 - hired Job 3:18 - they Psalms 22:5 - cried Psalms 106:44 - General Psalms 107:13 - General Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Hosea 5:15 - in their John 8:33 - and were

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord,.... Because of their hard bondage, and begged deliverance from it, being brought to a sense of their sins, and humbled for them:

for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; the same with the αρματα

το δρεπανηφορα, chariots which carried scythes at the side of them, fastened to the orbs of the wheels x, and were on both sides; and in some stood out ten cubits y which running furiously among the infantry, cut them to pieces in a terrible manner; of which Cyrus had in his army at first but an hundred, afterwards increased to three hundred z; and yet here a petty prince of Canaan had nine hundred of them; and which Josephus a has increased, beyond all belief, to the number of three thousand; which struck great terror into the Israelites, and who therefore durst not attempt to shake off his yoke, but cried to the Lord for help:

and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel; as they increased their sins, and repeated their revolts, the Lord increased their oppressions, and continued them the longer; the first was only eight years, the next eighteen, and this twenty, and which was a very heavy one; the other being foreign princes that oppressed them, but this a Canaanitish king, an implacable enemy, and who doubtless used them the more severely for what they had done to his ancestors, killed his father or grandfather, burnt the city of Hazor, and destroyed the inhabitants of it in Joshua's time; and the servitude was the harder, and the more intolerable to the Israelites, that they were under a people whose land had been given them to possess, and whom they had expelled, and now were become subject to them.

x Vid. Suidam in voce δρεπανηφορα. y Curtius, l. 4. c. 9, 12, 15. Liv. Hist. l. 37. c. 41. z Xenophon. Cyropaedia, l. 6. c. 13. a Antiqu. l. 5. c. 5. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Oppressed - The same word is used Exodus 3:9 of the oppression of Israel by the Egyptians. If they were put to task-work in hewing timber, their condition was very like that of their ancestors making bricks.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 4:3. Nine hundred chariots of iron — Chariots armed with iron scythes, as is generally supposed; they could not have been made all of iron, but they might have been shod with iron, or had iron scythes projecting from the axle on each side, by which infantry might be easily cut down or thrown into confusion. The ancient Britons are said to have had such chariots.