Judges 5 (NET)

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Judges 5:1¹On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this victory song:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 15:1 Isa 12:1-6 Ps 18:1 Rev 15:3-4 Rev 19:1-3 1 Sam 2:1 2 Chr 20:21 2 Chr 20:27 Exod 15:21 Isa 25:1

Judges 5:2²“When the leaders took the lead in Israel, When the people answered the call to war— Praise the Lord!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 5:9 2 Chr 17:16 Ps 110:3 Phil 2:13 1 Cor 9:17 2 Cor 8:12 2 Cor 9:7 2 Sam 22:47-48 Deut 32:43 Neh 11:2

Judges 5:3³Hear, O kings! Pay attention, O rulers! I will sing to the Lord! I will sing to the Lord God of Israel!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 138:4-5 Ezra 7:21 Ps 119:46 Ps 2:10-12 Ps 49:1-2 1 Kgs 18:22 1 Kgs 19:10 1 Kgs 19:14 Deut 32:1 Deut 32:3

Judges 5:4⁴O Lord, when you departed from Seir, when you marched from Edom’s plains, the earth shook, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down rain.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 33:2 Ps 68:7-8 Ps 77:17 2 Sam 22:8 Job 9:6 Ps 18:7-15 Hab 3:3-6

Judges 5:5⁵The mountains trembled before the Lord, the God of Sinai; before the Lord God of Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 19:18 Ps 97:5 Isa 64:1-3 Nah 1:5 Hab 3:10 Heb 12:18 Ps 68:8 Deut 4:11-12 Deut 5:22-25 Exod 20:18

Judges 5:6⁶In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael caravans disappeared; travelers had to go on winding side roads.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 33:8 Judg 3:31 Lam 1:4 Lev 26:22 2 Chr 15:5 Judg 4:17-18 Lam 4:18 Mic 3:12 Ps 125:5

Judges 5:7⁷Warriors were scarce; they were scarce in Israel, until you arose, Deborah, until you arose as a motherly protector in Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 20:19 Isa 49:23 Esth 9:19 Judg 4:4-6 Rom 16:13

Judges 5:8⁸God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found among forty military units in Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:16-17 Judg 2:12 Judg 2:17 1 Sam 13:19-22 Judg 4:3

Judges 5:9⁹My heart went out to Israel’s leaders, to the people who answered the call to war. Praise the Lord!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 5:2 1 Chr 29:9 2 Cor 8:12 2 Cor 8:17 2 Cor 8:3-4 2 Cor 9:5

Judges 5:10¹⁰You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, you who walk on the road, pay attention!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 12:14 Judg 10:4 Ps 105:2 Isa 28:6 Joel 3:12 Ps 107:32 Ps 145:11 Ps 145:5

Judges 5:11¹¹Hear the sound of those who divide the sheep among the watering places; there they tell of the Lord ’s victorious deeds, the victorious deeds of his warriors in Israel. Then the Lord ’s people went down to the city gates—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 6:5 Judg 5:8 1 Sam 12:7 Deut 22:24 Jer 7:2 Lam 5:4 Lam 5:9 Isa 12:3 Isa 28:6 Exod 2:17-19

Judges 5:12¹²Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Capture your prisoners of war, son of Abinoam!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 4:8 Ps 68:18 Ps 57:8 2 Tim 2:26 Eph 5:14 1 Cor 15:34 Jer 31:26 Isa 14:2 Isa 33:1 Isa 49:24-26

Judges 5:13¹³Then the survivors came down to the mighty ones; the Lord ’s people came down to me as warriors.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 2:26-27 Isa 41:15-16 Ps 75:7 Rom 8:37 Dan 7:18-27 Ezek 17:24 Ps 49:14 Rev 3:9

Judges 5:14¹⁴They came from Ephraim, who uprooted Amalek; they follow after you, Benjamin, with your soldiers. From Makir leaders came down, from Zebulun came the ones who march carrying an officer’s staff.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 12:15 Judg 3:13 Judg 3:27 Num 32:39-40 Exod 17:8-16 Judg 4:10 Judg 4:14 Judg 4:5-6

Judges 5:15¹⁵Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah; the men of Issachar supported Barak; into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. Among the clans of Reuben there was intense heart searching.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 4:14 1 Chr 12:32 2 Cor 11:2 Acts 15:39 Acts 20:13 Judg 4:10 Judg 4:6 Prov 22:13

Judges 5:16¹⁶Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, listening to the shepherds playing their pipes for their flocks? As for the clans of Reuben—there was intense searching of heart.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 32:24 Num 32:1-5 Judg 5:15 Lam 3:40-41 Phil 2:21 Phil 3:19 Ps 4:4 Ps 77:6

Judges 5:17¹⁷Gilead stayed put beyond the Jordan River. As for Dan—why did he seek temporary employment in the shipyards? Asher remained on the seacoast; he stayed by his harbors.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 13:25 Josh 13:31 Josh 19:24-31

Judges 5:18¹⁸The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; Naphtali charged onto the battlefields.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 4:10 Judg 4:6 1 John 3:16 Acts 20:24 Esth 4:16 Judg 4:14 Rev 12:11

Judges 5:19¹⁹Kings came, they fought; the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no silver as plunder.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 1:27 Judg 5:30 1 Kgs 4:12 Gen 14:22 Gen 4:16 Josh 10:22-27 Josh 11:1-15 Judg 4:13 Ps 118:8-12 Ps 44:12

Judges 5:20²⁰From the sky the stars fought, from their paths in the heavens they fought against Sisera.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 10:11 1 Sam 7:10 Judg 4:15 Ps 77:17-18

Judges 5:21²¹The Kishon River carried them off; the river confronted them —the Kishon River. Step on the necks of the strong!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 4:7 Mic 7:10 Ps 44:5 1 Kgs 18:40 Gen 49:18 Isa 25:10 Judg 4:13 Ps 83:9-10

Judges 5:22²²The horses’ hooves pounded the ground; the stallions galloped madly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 5:28 Jer 47:4 Mic 4:13 Ps 147:10-11 Ps 20:7 Ps 33:17

Judges 5:23²³‘Call judgment down on Meroz,’ says the angel of the Lord; ‘Be sure to call judgment down on those who live there, because they did not come to help in the Lord ’s battle, to help in the Lord ’s battle against the warriors.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:22 1 Cor 3:9 Jer 48:10 Judg 21:9-10 1 Sam 17:47 1 Sam 18:17 1 Sam 25:28 1 Sam 26:19 2 Cor 6:1 Judg 13:3

Judges 5:24²⁴The most rewarded of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 1:42 Luke 1:28 Gen 14:19 Judg 4:17 Prov 31:31

Judges 5:25²⁵He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for a king, she served him curds.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 4:19-21

Judges 5:26²⁶Her left hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. She “hammered” Sisera, she shattered his skull, she smashed his head, she drove the tent peg through his temple.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:49-51 2 Sam 20:22 Judg 4:21

Judges 5:27²⁷Between her feet he collapsed, he fell limp and was lifeless; between her feet he collapsed and fell, in the spot where he collapsed, there he fell—violently killed!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 2:13 Ps 52:7 Matt 7:2

Judges 5:28²⁸Through the window she looked; Sisera’s mother cried out through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot so slow to return? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariot horses delayed?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 1:2 Jas 5:7 Judg 4:15 Prov 7:6 Song 2:9 Song 8:14

Judges 5:29²⁹The wisest of her ladies answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Judges 5:30³⁰‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder — a girl or two for each man to rape! Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth, for the neck of the plunderer!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 15:9 2 Sam 13:18 Gen 37:3 Job 20:5 Ps 45:14

Judges 5:31³¹May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 37:6 2 Sam 23:4 Ps 19:4-5 1 Cor 8:3 1 Pet 1:8 Dan 12:3 Jas 1:12 Ps 89:36 Ps 91:14 Hos 6:3