KJV King James Version
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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Judges 5:25
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
WEB World English Bible
He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
ASV American Standard Version
He asked water, and she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Water he asked—milk she gave; In a lordly dish she brought near butter.
Surrounding context — Judges 5
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25 He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
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