Judges 4:3

The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera ¹  had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, ²  and he cruelly ³  oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

De 28:29,33,47,48; Jos 17:16; Jud 1:19; Jud 3:9,15; Jud 5:8; Jud 10:16; 1Sa 7:8; Ps 50:15; Ps 78:34; Ps 106:42; Jer 2:27,28

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

³ tn Heb “with strength.”