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sisera

sisera


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Sisera 
  (Egypt.  Ses-Ra,  "servant  of  Ra").  (1.)  The  captain  of  Jabin's 
  army  (Judg.  4:2),  which  was  routed  and  destroyed  by  the  army  of 
  Barak  on  the  plain  of  Esdraelon.  After  all  was  lost  he  fled  to 
  the  settlement  of  Heber  the  Kenite  in  the  plain  of  Zaanaim. 
  Jael,  Heber's  wife,  received  him  into  her  tent  with  apparent 
  hospitality,  and  "gave  him  butter"  (i.e.,  lebben,  or  curdled 
  milk)  "in  a  lordly  dish."  Having  drunk  the  refreshing  beverage, 
  he  lay  down  and  soon  sank  into  the  sleep  of  the  weary.  While  he 
  lay  asleep  Jael  crept  stealthily  up  to  him  and  taking  in  her 
  hand  one  of  the  tent  pegs,  with  a  mallet  she  drove  it  with  such 
  force  through  his  temples  that  it  entered  into  the  ground  where 
  he  lay,  and  "at  her  feet  he  bowed,  he  fell;  where  he  bowed, 
  there  he  fell  down  dead."  The  part  of  Deborah's  song  (Judg. 
  5:24-27)  referring  to  the  death  of  Sisera  (which  is  a  "mere 
  patriotic  outburst,"  and  "is  no  proof  that  purer  eyes  would  have 
  failed  to  see  gross  sin  mingling  with  Jael's  service  to  Israel") 
  is  thus  rendered  by  Professor  Roberts  (Old  Testament  Revision): 
 
  "Extolled  above  women  be  Jael, 
 
  The  wife  of  Heber  the  Kenite, 
 
  Extolled  above  women  in  the  tent. 
 
  He  asked  for  water,  she  gave  him  milk; 
 
  She  brought  him  cream  in  a  lordly  dish. 
 
  She  stretched  forth  her  hand  to  the  nail, 
 
  Her  right  hand  to  the  workman's  hammer, 
 
  And  she  smote  Sisera;  she  crushed  his  head, 
 
  She  crashed  through  and  transfixed  his  temples. 
 
  At  her  feet  he  curled  himself,  he  fell,  he  lay  still 
 
  At  her  feet  he  curled  himself,  he  fell; 
 
  And  where  he  curled  himself,  there  he  fell  dead." 
 
  (2.)  The  ancestor  of  some  of  the  Nethinim  who  returned  with 
  Zerubbabel  (Ezra  2:53;  Neh.  7:55). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Sisera,  that  sees  a  horse  or  a  swallow