King James Version
What Does Judges 5:27 Mean?
“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”
Context
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
28
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, answer: Heb. her words
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(27) **At her feet.**—Literally, *between her feet, *as though the dauntless woman had stridden over him as he lay in the dead sleep of weariness.
**He bowed.**—The word means that he suddenly curled up his knees in one contortion of agony.
**He fell.**—Rolling, perhaps, off the divan on which he was resting.
**He lay down.**—Motionless in death, after that one convulsive movement.
**Dead.**—Rather, *slaughtered, *or *murdered. *With this one terrific word the scene ends, as with a blow.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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