Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 76:5

5 The stout hearted are spoiled , they have slept their sleep : and none of the men of might have found their hands .

Of all that Glory and Advantage, which they either had already gotten, or further expected from the Success of their present expedition which they promised to themselves. They became a prey to those upon whom they hoped to prey.

Even a perpetual sleep, as Ier. 51. 39. 57. or the [illegible: 1 word] of Death, Psal. 13. 3. called their sleep Emphatically, as being pecul[illegible: 1+ letters]ar to them, and such like Men, and not that sleep which is common to the good and bad. Their Death he seems to call [illegible: 1 word] Because they were slain in the Night, when they had Composed themselves to rest and sleep, and so passed insensibly from one sleep to another. For it is thought by many, that this Psalm was Composed upon the occasion of that prodigious slaughter of the Assyrians in Iudah, 2 Kings 19. 35.

They had no more strength in, or use of their hands, against the destroying Angel, than they who have no hands.