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Attributed commentary excerpt

Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 5:24

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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Jael behaved altogether differently, although she was not an Israelite, but a woman of the tribe of the Kenites, which was only allied with Israel (see Jdg 4:11, Jdg 4:17.). For her heroic deed she was to be blessed before women (מן as in Gen 3:14, literally removed away from women). The "women in the tent" are dwellers in tents, or shepherdesses. This heroic act is poetically commemorated in the strophe which follows in Jdg 5:25-27. Judges 5:25
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