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Understanding Ancient Justice
Commentators explain that the graphic violence and Deborah's celebratory tone, while shocking to modern readers, should be seen in its historical context. Her joy is not from a personal thirst for revenge but from her perspective as a 'Mother in Israel' celebrating God's justice and the deliverance of her people from a cruel oppressor.
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Albert Barnes
On Judges 5:26
18th Century
Theologian
Rather, she smote his head, and she struck and pierced through his temple.
Charles Ellicott
On Judges 5:26
19th Century
Bishop
Nail... workman’s hammer. —See on Judges 4:21.
Smote. — Hammered.
Smote off his he…
John Gill
On Judges 5:26
17th Century
Pastor
She put her hand to the nail
Her left hand, as the Septuagint, Arabic, and Vulgate Latin versions express it, and as…
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Matthew Henry
On Judges 5:24–31
17th Century
Minister
Jael had a special blessing. Those whose appointed lot is humble, in a lowly and confined sphere, if they serve God according to the abilities He h…