4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera5 had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,6 and he cruelly7 oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
tnHeb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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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.