carlsagmeister:
Recently I was in a debate about Mary and Jesus both being called blessed in Luke. However, he pointed out that Jael was called blest among women in Judges 5:24. It left me stumped as to what the differences were and I had no adequate response.
First in Judges4:
17 But Sis’era fled away on foot to the tent of Ja’el, the wife of Heber the Ken’ite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Ken’ite. 18 And Ja’el came out to meet Sis’era, and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; have no fear.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. 19 And he said to her, “Pray, give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. 20 And he said to her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is any one here?’ say, No.” 21 But Ja’el the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground, as he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
Now onto Judges5:
24 "Most blessed of women be Ja’el, the wife of Heber the Ken’ite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed. 25 He asked water and she gave him milk, she brought him curds in a lordly bowl. 26 She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sis’era a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.
The are praising her heroics for killing the man who was out to harm the Jews, this is just a moment in time bit of praise.
Now look at Luke1:48
For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed
Mary says “henceforth” as in, from now on ALL generations will call me blessed. You only see this talk concerning the Blessed Virgin.
