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href="../judges/4-11.htm" title="Judges 4:11">◄</a> Judges 4:12 <a href="../judges/4-13.htm" title="Judges 4:13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/4.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/judges/4.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/judges/4.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/judges/4.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/judges/4.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/judges/4.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/4.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English 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<a href="/commentaries/wes/judges/4.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">They shewed Sisera.</span>—The previous verse has been introduced by way of anticipation, that the reader—who has last heard of the Kenites in the south of Judah (<a href="/judges/1-16.htm" title="And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelled among the people.">Judges 1:16</a>)—may not be surprised at <a href="/judges/4-17.htm" title="However, Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.">Judges 4:17</a> to find them in Naphtali. It is not, therefore, necessary to suppose that the “they” means the Kenites. It may be an impersonal expression (as it is rendered in the LXX. and Vulg. “it was told”).<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/4.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>4:10-16. Siser's confidence was chiefly in his chariots. But if we have ground to hope that God goes before us, we may go on with courage and cheerfulness. Be not dismayed at the difficulties thou meetest with in resisting Satan, in serving God, or suffering for him; for is not the Lord gone before thee? Follow him then fully. Barak went down, though upon the plain the iron chariots would have advantage against him: he quitted the mountain in dependence on the Divine power; for in the Lord alone is the salvation of his people, Jer 3:23. He was not deceived in his confidence. When God goes before us in our spiritual conflicts, we must bestir ourselves; and when, by his grace, he gives us some success against the enemies of our souls, we must improve it by watchfulness and resolution.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/4.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Read, "Heber the Kenitc had severed himself from the Kenites which were of the children of Hobab," etc., "unto the oak (or terebinth tree) in Zaanaim" (or Bitzaanaim, which Conder identifies with Bessum, twelve miles southeast of Tabor, and near Kedesh on the Sea of Galilee). This migration of Heber the Kenite, with a portion of his tribe, from the south of Judah to the north of Naphtali, perhaps caused by Philistine oppression, had clearly taken place recently. It is mentioned here to account for the subsequent narrative, but possibly also because the news of the great muster of the Israelites at Kedesh had been carried to Sisera by some of the tribe <a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12</a>, whose tents we are here informed were in the immediate neighborhood of Kedesh. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/4.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>11. Now Heber the Kenite … pitched his tent—It is not uncommon, even in the present day, for pastoral tribes to feed their flocks on the extensive commons that lie in the heart of inhabited countries in the East (see on [216]Jud 1:16).<p>plain of Zaanaim—This is a mistranslation for "the oaks of the wanderers." The site of the encampment was under a grove of oaks, or terebinths, in the upland valley of Kedesh.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/4.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">They, </span> i.e. his people dwelling there, or his spies; or, <span class="ital">he was told</span>, this being an impersonal speech. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/4.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And they showed Sisera,.... Either some of the Canaanites that dwelt near Tabor, or some spies that Sisera had out; though some think the Kenites told him, who were at peace with Jabin, <a href="/judges/4-17.htm">Judges 4:17</a>; yet whether out of good will or ill will cannot be said: however, so it was ordered by the providence of God, that by some means or another Sisera should be informed <p>that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor; and no doubt at the same time he was told the number of men that went with him; from whence he might well conclude, that such a warlike man, with such a force collected together, and having posted himself in an high and strong mountain, must have some design to cause a revolt of Israel from Jabin his prince. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/4.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Judges 4:12<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/4.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>As soon as Sisera received tidings of the march of Barak to Mount Tabor, he brought together all his chariots and all his men of war from Harosheth of the Goyim into the brook-valley of the Kishon. Then Deborah said to Barak, "Up; for this is the day in which Jehovah hath given Sisera into thy hand. Yea (הלא, nonne, as an expression indicating lively assurance), the Lord goeth out before thee," sc., to the battle, to smite the foe; whereupon Barak went down from Tabor with his 10,000 men to attack the enemy, according to <a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-19.htm">Judges 5:19</a>, at Taanach by the water of Megiddo. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/judges/4-12.htm">Judges 4:12 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../judges/4-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 4:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 4:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/4-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 4:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 4:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>