◄ Judges 5:25 ►
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Good News Translation
Sisera asked for water, but she gave him milk; she brought him cream in a beautiful bowl.

New Revised Standard Version
He asked water and she gave him milk, she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.

Contemporary English Version
Sisera asked for water, but Jael gave him milk--cream in a fancy cup.

New American Bible
He asked for water, she gave him milk, in a princely bowl she brought him curds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.

asked

Judges 4:19-21 Said to her: Give me, I beseech thee, a little water, for I am very thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him. . . .

butter.

Context
The Song of Deborah and Barak
…24Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife of Haber the Cinite, and blessed be she in her tent. 25He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.26She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:8
He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.

Judges 5:24
Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife of Haber the Cinite, and blessed be she in her tent.

Judges 5:26
She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.

Judges 5:24
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