Commentary for Judges 5:13

Dominated.יְרַד is similar to יִרְדֶה, "dominated,"²⁰יָרַד is translated as descended. יְרַד, however, means dominated. as in "to prostrate nations before him."²¹To give him dominion over them. (Yeshayah, 45:1.) The surviving Yisroelites dominated the mighty among the idolators.

Then: With the strengthening of the song and the salvation's intensification; then [in order that] those that remain of Israel will rule over the mighty of the nations, which is referring to the mighty nations,...

Meaning dominion as in Tehelim 110:2 "rule over your enemies."

Then the remnant yerad: That is yeradah, in its complete form. And the explantion is that the Holy One, blessed be He, had Israel, who is the remnant, subdue (radah) and control the mighty ones of the people of Yavin, the king of Canaan. And the [letter,] lamed (which otherwise means, to or for), [in] le'adirim is in place of bet (making it, among). And Yonatan translated (it in the Targum) to be like (Job 2:13), "And they sat with him le'aretz"; and (Genesis 4:23), "I killed a man le'pitzi"; and others beside them.

Adonoy empowered me over the mighty. Gave me dominion²²See fn.19. over the mighty warriors among the nations.

The Lord subdued for me: The Lord has given me dominion over the warriors of the nations. And it repeated this matter with what it said.

Residue as in Jeremia 42: 17 "Remainder and refugee

as in the mighty ones. the Lamed is in the place of the Bet so too in Leviticus 27: 7 "they fell by the sword in-front of them. In the sentence its With the sword