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Judges 4:23

On that day G od subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the People of Israel. The People of Israel pressed harder and harder on Jabin king of Canaan until there was nothing left of him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaanites;   Jabin;   Prayer;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jabin;   Jael;   Jezreel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hazor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hospitality;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Barak;   Deborah;   Esdraelon;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jabin;   Levi;   Naphtali;   War;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Barak ;   Jabin ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Barak;   Jael;   Pithom;   Sisera;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armageddon;   Baal;   Barak;   Jael;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Canaan;   Hazor;   Jabin;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
That day God subdued King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.
Hebrew Names Version
So God subdued on that day Yavin the king of Kana`an before the children of Yisra'el.
King James Version
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
English Standard Version
So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.
New Century Version
On that day God defeated Jabin king of Canaan in the sight of Israel.
New English Translation
That day God humiliated King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.
Amplified Bible
So on that day God subdued and humbled Jabin king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan on that day before the sons of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So God brought downe Iabin the King of Canaan that day before the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
and for others, save, snatching them out of the fire; and on others have mercy with fear, hating even the tunic polluted by the flesh.
Contemporary English Version
That same day the Israelites defeated the Canaanite King Jabin, and his army was no longer powerful enough to attack the Israelites.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus God on that day defeated Yavin the king of Kena‘an in the presence of the people of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
So God subdued on that day Jabin king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
On that day God defeated King Jabin of Canaan for the Israelites.
George Lamsa Translation
So on that day God defeated Nabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Good News Translation
That day God gave the Israelites victory over Jabin, the Canaanite king.
Literal Translation
And on that day God humbled Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus God broughte downe Iabin the kynge of the Cananites before the children of Israel at that tyme,
American Standard Version
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
So that day God overcame Jabin, king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so God brought Iabin the kyng of Chanaan into subiection that day before the children of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
So God subdued on that day, Iabin the king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So God routed Jabin king of Chanaan in that day before the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor in that day God `made low Jabyn, the kyng of Canaan, bifor the sones of Israel;
Young's Literal Translation
And God humbleth on that day Jabin king of Canaan before the sons of Israel,
Update Bible Version
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
World English Bible
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
New King James Version
So on that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan in the presence of the children of Israel.
New Living Translation
So on that day Israel saw God defeat Jabin, the Canaanite king.
New Life Bible
God put Jabin the king of Canaan under the power of the people of Israel on that day.
New Revised Standard
So on that day God subdued King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus God subdued, on that day, Jabin king of Canaan, - before the sons of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So God that day humbled Jabin, the king of Chanaan, before the children of Israel:
Revised Standard Version
So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

17Meanwhile Sisera, running for his life, headed for the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite. Jabin king of Hazor and Heber the Kenite were on good terms with one another. Jael stepped out to meet Sisera and said, "Come in, sir. Stay here with me. Don't be afraid." So he went with her into her tent. She covered him with a blanket. 19 He said to her, "Please, a little water. I'm thirsty." She opened a bottle of milk, gave him a drink, and then covered him up again. 20 He then said, "Stand at the tent flap. If anyone comes by and asks you, ‘Is there anyone here?' tell him, ‘No, not a soul.'" 21 Then while he was fast asleep from exhaustion, Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg and hammer, tiptoed toward him, and drove the tent peg through his temple and all the way into the ground. He convulsed and died. 22 Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera. Jael went out to greet him. She said, "Come, I'll show you the man you're looking for." He went with her and there he was—Sisera, stretched out, dead, with a tent peg through his temple. 23On that day G od subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the People of Israel. The People of Israel pressed harder and harder on Jabin king of Canaan until there was nothing left of him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Chronicles 22:18, Nehemiah 9:24, Psalms 18:39, Psalms 18:47, Psalms 47:3, Psalms 81:14, 1 Corinthians 15:28, Hebrews 11:33

Reciprocal: Judges 3:3 - Canaanites Psalms 74:12 - working

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
No murder.
Leviticus 19:18
"Don't seek revenge or carry a grudge against any of your people. "Love your neighbor as yourself. I am God .
Judges 9:7
When this was all told to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and shouted: Listen to me, leaders of Shechem. And let God listen to you! The trees set out one day to anoint a king for themselves. They said to Olive Tree, "Rule over us." But Olive Tree told them, "Am I no longer good for making oil That gives glory to gods and men, and to be demoted to waving over trees?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So God subdued on that day Jabin king of Canaan before the children, of Israel. Freed Israel from subjection to him and delivered him into the hands of the Israelites; for Josephus o says, that as Barak went towards Hazor, he met Jabin, and slew him; who perhaps having heard of the defeat of his army under Sisera, came forth with another against Israel, which being overcome by them, he was slain, and the city utterly destroyed, as the same writer says; but by what follows it seems rather that the total conquest of him was afterwards and gradually accomplished.

o Antiqu. l. 5. c. 5. sect. 4.


 
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