King James Version
What Does Judges 5:25 Mean?
“He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.”
Context
23
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. with: Heb. she hammered
27
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. At: Heb. Between dead: Heb. destroyed
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(25) **Butter.**—Rather, *curdled milk.*
In a lordly dish.—Rather, *in a dish of the nobles: sephel, *a splendid bowl, reserved for great occasions. All this was done to lull his suspicions into a false security.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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