Song Of Deborah And Barak Series

[23] (Num. 32:39) “And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.”

[24] (1 Pt. 4:10) “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” As every man hath received the gift (Gr charisma) does not refer to talents, nor does the word have the article in the original. Not “the gift,” but “any gift” (meaning something one gets for nothing) is to be given in the same way that it is received, without grudging. This is the thing that makes us good stewards of God’s grace. Minister the same one to another in this context means being hospitable to one another. In the early church, apostles and preachers were constantly travelling from one town to another spreading the gospel. In this type of ministry, they needed someone to minister to them in return by providing the physical necessities of life. The gospel came as a free gift, so should the support of the gospel preachers. In this passage, both the preaching of the message of the gospel, and ministering to the physical needs of the preachers through genuine Christian hospitality, is to be done to glorify God in the name of Jesus Christ.

[25] (Ge. 49.15) “Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.” Issachar is likened to a strong donkey, so content to rest in pleasant pastoral surroundings that it had no will to fight for independence and so became subject to the enemy’s yoke.

[26](Phil. 2.21) "For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus."

[27] (1 Cor. 3:10–15) “According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”

[28] (Luke 1.42) “And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.”

[29] (Eze. 32.27) “And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.” they shall not lie with the mighty -- that is, they shall not have separate tombs such as mighty conquerors have: but shall all be heaped together in one pit, as is the case with the vanquished [GROTIUS]. HAVERNICK reads it interrogatively, "Shall they not lie with the mighty that are fallen?" But the English Version is supported by the parallel (Isa 14:18, 19), to which Ezekiel refers, and which represents them as not lying as mighty kings lie in a grave, but cast out of one, as a carcass trodden under foot. Gone down to hell with their weapons of war—Are buried in their armor and with their weapons lying by their sides. It was a very ancient practice, in different nations, to bury a warrior's weapons in the same grave with himself.