Judges 4:3

“And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, etc.] Because of their hard bondage, and begged deliverance from it, being brought to a sense of their sins, and humbled for them: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; the same with the armata to drepanhfora, chariots which carried scythes at the side of them, fastened to the orbs of the wheels f80, and were on both sides; and in some stood out ten cubits f81 which running furiously among the infantry, cut them to pieces in a terrible manner; of which Cyrus had in his army at first but an hundred, afterwards increased to three hundred f82; and yet here a petty prince of Canaan had nine hundred of them; and which Josephus f83 has increased,…”

“Oppressed - The same word is used Exodus 3:9 of the oppression of Israel by the Egyptians. If they were put to task-work in hewing timber, their condition was very like that of their ancestors making bricks. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Mightily oppressed - More than former tyrants; from his malice and hatred against the Israelites; and from God's just judgment, the growing punishment being suitable to their aggravated wickedness. Judges 4:4”

“cried: Jdg 3:9, Jdg 3:15, Jdg 10:16; Sa1 7:8; Psa 50:15, Psa 78:34; Jer 2:27, Jer 2:28 chariots: Jdg 1:19; Jos 17:16 mightily: Jdg 5:8; Deu 28:29, Deu 28:33, Deu 28:47, Deu 28:48; Psa 106:42 Judges 4:4”