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A Crucial Backstory
Commentators explain that this verse is a deliberate pause in the action. The author inserts this detail about Heber the Kenite moving his family north to explain how Jael, his wife, is in the right place at the right time to encounter Sisera later in the story. It’s a key piece of narrative setup.
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Albert Barnes
On Judges 4:11
18th Century
Theologian
Read, Heber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites who were of the children of Hobab, etc., unto the oak (or terebinth tree) …
Charles Ellicott
On Judges 4:11
19th Century
Bishop
Heber the Kenite. See Judges 1:16; Judges 3:31; Numbers 10:29.
Which was of the children of H…
John Gill
On Judges 4:11
17th Century
Pastor
Now Heber the Kenite
A descendant of Kain, a principal man among the Midianites; the Targum calls him the Salmaean:<…
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Matthew Henry
On Judges 4:10–16
17th Century
Minister
Sisera'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.…