 He asked water, and she gave him milk; She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workman's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, She smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken...  The Living Age - Page 1891912Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1868 - 344 pages
...hand that did not spare. " Blessed above women," sung Deborah, "shall Jael, the wife of Heber, be. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and with the hammer she struck Sisera, and smote off his head ; and so let all thine... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1869 - 320 pages
...above women shall Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite be ; blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk ; she brought...put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer ; and with her hammer she smote Sisera ; she smote off his head, when she had pierced... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1869 - 692 pages
...Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. " He asked for water, and she gave him milk ; she brought forth butter...put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head wh'en she had pierced... | |
 | J. Walker - 1869 - 160 pages
...the mighty foe. Blessed above women who in tents reside, Yea, blessed shall Jael, wife of Heber, be, He asked water, and she gave him milk, She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. The while fast bound in sleep, within the tent, The weary chieftain, Sisera, lay supine, With her left... | |
 | 1869 - 642 pages
...she has given him milk ; she lias brought him forth butter in a lordly dish.' But what comes next? ' She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer.' You know the sequel as regards Sisera, and you know how to apply it to the worldling.... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - 1923 - 824 pages
...dweller in tents and not of the descendants of Jacob, made use of the opportunity offered her. V. 25. cial work of the women the very thickest, the most excellent cream, in a lordly dish, in a show-bowl, the finest vessel in... | |
 | John Dashiell Stoops - 1926 - 396 pages
...his life. Blessed — so runs the account — shall she be above women; when Sisera asked for water she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly...put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; with the hammer she smote off Sisera's head; at her feet he bowed, and where he bowed,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be ; blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25 t now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou see'st — if indeed I go 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she... | |
 | 1926 - 664 pages
...of the sleeping Sisera whom in his flight from the field she had lured for refuge into her tent: — "He asked water, and she gave him; milk she brought forth butter in a lordly dish ... At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there... | |
 | 1927 - 838 pages
...MADOX TORD I SELDOM sit down to an American meal without remembering pleasurably the scriptural verse: "He asked water and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish," and when I am not otherwise engaged I frequently wonder why it is that Americans who are not sparing... | |
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