Judges 5

1. He will set himself against his enemies: He will set his attributes against them, his power and justice; and who knows the power of his anger (Psalm 90:11). 2. God will set the creatures against them (Judges 5:20). The stars in their course fought against Sisera.

In the latter sense God is said to raise up Pharaoh to show his power in him, that he might magnify his glorious power in his punishment and destruction (Exodus 9:16; Romans 9:17). In a good sense with respect to the call of God, it is used by Deborah (Judges 5:7): "Until I Debo…

Syr. [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] Surgit. Vul. Lat. exurgat, arose, in an extraordinary manner (Judges 5:7). Until I Deborah arose, I arose a mother in Israel; that is, by an extraordinary call from God to be a prophetess and a deliverer.

5. The Creatures of God work for good to the Godly. 1. Creatures inanimate, Judges 5.20. The Stars in their course fought against Sisera; the Stars as the Host of God gathered in a Battalion, and by their influences raising terrible tempests, did as it were conspire the ruin of…

Sometimes to an army (Genesis 2:1): the heavens were finished and all the host of them. Order is necessary everywhere but especially in an host; there every one must keep in his rank and station; thus the stars have their courses (Judges 5:20), and the clouds their courses (Job…

It is indeed probable that he, and the citizens of Enoch over whom he presided (Genesis 4), repudiated that worship — namely, of sacrifices — from which he had drawn the first stain of evil, and usurped new rites of his own devising, worshipping with self-chosen devotion. That h…

We have entered upon other lines of reasoning in our investigation of the beginnings of superstitious worship; we will continue further on the path we have begun. The "new gods" — as the Holy Spirit speaks in (Judges 5:8) — which the apostates dispersed from Babylon first procur…

Our translators either retain "teraphim," as at Hosea 3:4, or render it by "images," with the word "teraphim" noted everywhere in the margin. XXI. Also the term meaning "new gods:": Judges 5:8, "The people chose new gods" — mushrooms of the earth, which but the day before yester…

Titus 2:5. That they be temperate, pure, tarrying at home, good, subject to their husbands, least that the word of God be blasphemed. Judges 5:24. Blessed be Jael the wife of Ghebar the Kenite, before all women which abide in the tents. Proverbs 31:5. Who shall find a woman of s…

But a gracious Providence has raised up other men, whom, though we may not feel ourselves at liberty to subscribe to all their views, we cannot but hail as the friends of evangelical truth, and admire for their holy fortitude in coming to the help of the Lord, to the help of the…

Thus One of those Angels slew an whole Host of men in one Night, Isa. 37. 36. And it is said that the Stars in their Courses fought against Sisera, Judg. 5. 20. God overruled the Influences of Heaven against them, though it may be Angels also are here intended.

Heaven above sends down a hell of fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24). The stars in their courses fought against Sisera (Judges 5:20). Devils do his will herein, he sent evil angels among the Egyptians (Psalms 78:49).

Shammatha therefore is only a general name for the expulsion of a person, sometimes with the Niddui, and sometimes with the Cherem, which yet I do not suppose was always thus horrid and fierce. To add to the terror of this Sentence, they used to accompany the pronouncing of it w…

The reason he gives is because stars are (Illustratores Diei) the enlighteners of the day; and to address it, we must not (says he) take the day strictly for a day artificial, for then the stars are of no use, but for that part of the day natural which is dark, namely the night;…

While it is called A Song of Songs, it is compared with, and preferred to, all other songs: and we conceive the comparison is not only between this and human songs; but, 1. It is compared with, and preferred to, all these which Solomon wrote, and it is preferable to all these 10…

4. That the care and love of Christ to them, in reference to all these, may appear, that they may know upon what grounds to comfort themselves in every condition, and may have this song, as a little magazine, for direction, and consolation in every condition. Therefore this song…

But the Holy Ghost never dreamed of such an inference, therefore let builders, watchmen and ministers of the Gospel go to bed and sleep, for God, he alone shall build cities and houses, and watch over men and all societies, and bring all souls to Christ. Yes, he has commanded us…

3. These must be strong influences, that with the anointing (Isaiah 61:1, 2) is given a power to preach the year of vengeance, to judge and trample upon the necks of all his enemies; that the man Christ shall come visibly and locally from the highest heavens, and the heavens bow…

3. The heart may be turned as streams of a river drawn through this part of the land, or this part (Prov. 21:1), and from nilling to willing, as the Lord thinks fit, according to God's will of precept; this is often the falling of the Church of Ephesus sinfully from their first…

Those that maliciously oppose and reproach this Work, and call it the Work of the Devil, want but one Thing of the unpardonable Sin, and that is doing it against inward Conviction. And though some are so prudent, as now openly to oppose and reproach the Work, yet it is to be fea…

Use 1: For consolation to all them that wait or care for the consolation of Israel; many are ready to faint and stagger at the distractions of the times (Judges 5:15). For the divisions or breaches of Ruben there were great thoughts of heart, or as the original will bear it, gre…

It was the observable felicity of Asa's reign, that in his days the land was quiet (2 Chronicles 14:1, 5). In the preceding reigns there was no peace to him that went out, or to him that came in, whether outward-bound or homewards bound, they were exposed to great vexations (cha…

Not only the unruly servant is cast into hell that beat his fellow-servant that ate, and drank with the drunken; but the idle servant that wrapped up his talent in a napkin. Meroz is cursed, not for opposing and fighting, but for not helping (Judges 5:23). Dives did not take awa…

His earnest hope and expectation is first to be considered: And here his hope is described, (1) By the effect, his looking after the accomplishment of the promise, as Judges 5:28, when Sisera's mother expected him, She looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why i…

It requires a good measure of the indwelling Spirit, and word of God to pray in the Spirit; but much more to sing in the Spirit, wherein our senses delighted with the melody are apt to steal away our hearts from spiritual fervency. Deborah found her heart dull to be awakened, so…

His other Song (Deuteronomy 32), he was commanded to teach it to the children of Israel (Deuteronomy 31:19). The Song of Deborah was sung by her and Barak (Judges 5:1). Under the Kings of Judah, and after the return from Captivity, the Officers of the Church only sang for the mo…

For without holiness no man shall ever see the Lord. Now this way of sanctification is a very narrow way, for it lies over the neck of every lust, and in the exercise of every grace, subduing the one, and improving the other; dying daily, and yet living daily, dying to sin and l…

When many went back and walked no more with Jesus, if commonness might have given encouragement, the disciples had warrant enough to have carried them in the stream, yet see how ill the Lord takes the least inclination or suspicion that way: Will you also go away? See how heavil…

What are the birds' thankful hymns (as Ambrose calls them) but tributes of obedience? Inanimate creatures obey God; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera (Judges 5); the wind and the sea obey him (Mark 4:41). The very stones, if God give them a commission, will cry ou…

It is first a Fox, and then a Lion. Sin does to a man, as Jael to Sisera, she gave him Milk, but then she brought him low, Judges 5.26, 27. She put her hand to the Nail, and with the Hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his T…

Now, to say the truth, by reason of the fierceness of the lions, and of the grim carriage of him that did back them, this way had of late lain much unoccupied, and was almost grown over with grass. Christiana: Then said Christiana, Though the highways have been unoccupied hereto…

Such as might rather intimate than plainly declare it, and rather afford an after instruction to teachable minds, than beget a present conviction and dread in the stupidly obstinate and unteachable. And this effect we find it had, as is observed by another evangelical historian,…

He can suspend natural agents, stop the Lions mouth, cause the Sun to stand still, make the fire not burn; Xerxes the Persian Monarch threw fetters into the sea, as if he would have chained up the unruly waters; but when God commands, the winds and sea obey him. If he speak the…

Surely, because (as the text says, verse 39) she had not known a man; and it was accounted a curse in Judea, for a woman always to live unmarried. Secondly, in the last verse it is said in our common English translation, that the daughters of Israel went year by year, to lament…

Thus we read, that Joseph being by Pharaoh set over all the land of Egypt, was arrayed with garments of fine linen, and had a golden chain put upon his neck, to put a difference between him and the inferior princes of Pharaoh (Genesis 41:42). Thus in ancient times, the captains…

It was a prophetess, one immediately inspired by God, that called the people to the battle, and conducted them in the whole affair: the people seem to have been miraculously animated and encouraged in the matter, when they willingly offered themselves, and gathered together to t…

3. Brute beasts and unreasonable creatures, who serve their great Lord against man, when he rebels against God, which otherwise should have been subservient to him: thus the fiery serpents in the wilderness, the two she-bears, to tear in pieces the mocking children, thus locusts…