The Book of Judges (Volume 8); With Map, Notes and Introduction (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... doth, she judged Israel at that time. And she dwelt under 5 the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment And she sent and called Barak the son of 6 Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath men." I. Williams, Female Characters of Holv Scripture. Strictly the Hebrew word, like the Latin votes and the Greek irpo0i)r);s (see i Cor. xiv.), signifies any one who speaks under a Divine influence (see also Exod. vii. 1, where it appears to mean anyone who is the mouthpiece of inspiration). We are not told, for instance, that Miriam foretold future events, but she evidently acted as the inspired leader of the women in the great choral ode of Exod. xv., as Deborah did in the similar one recorded in the next chapter. Deborah, however, possessed the power of prescience. See v. 9. The name signifies a bee. Is. vii. 18. The masculine plural is found in ch. xiv. 8. The Chaldee paraphrast, who frequently introduces traditional matter, and who has largely added to Deborah's song (see notes on next chapter), tells us here how Deborah was a person of consideration, possessing palm-trees in Jericho, parks (lit. paradises) in Ramah, and productive olives in the valley (Bik'ath), a house of irrigation in Bethel, and white dust (was this the fertile soil produced by terracing the rock, or potter's earth, as Lightfoot, Centuria Chorographica, ch. 11 ?) in the king's mount. Lapidoth] The word signifies lamps, or torches. See note, ch. vii. 16. As in French and German, so in Hebrew the word woman is also used for wife. Some have therefore rendered a woman of a fiery spirit, and the Rabbis have supposed that Barak (lightning) was her husband. With Barak we may compare Barcas, the cognomen...