Judges

Judges 5 ©

The song of Deborah and Barak.

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THEN asang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

a Ex. 15.1. 1Sa. 2.1. Lu. 1.45-79. Is. 12; 25; 26. Re. 19.1,4. Ps. 18, title.
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bPraise ye the LORD for the cavenging of Israel, when the people dwillingly offered themselves.

b Ps. 48.11; 94.1; 97.8.
c Ps. 18.47.
d v.9. Ps. 110.3.
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Hear, eO ye kings; give ear, O ye fprinces; gI, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

e Ps. 2.10-12; 29.1,2. Ec. 5.8.
f De. 32.1,3.
g Ps. 34.1,3; 18.49; 59.16; 71.15; 61.8; 101.1; 104.33; 108.3; 145.5,21; 146.2.
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LORD, hwhen thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, ithe earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

h De. 4.11; 33.2. Hab. 3.3,10. Is. 64.3. Nu. 20.21; 21.4. Ps. 68.7,8; 18.7-15. Ex. 15.14,15.
i Ps. 68.8.
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The jmountains 1melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

j Hab. 3.10. Ex. 19.18. Ps. 97.5; 77.17; 114.4; 68.8. Is. 64.1,3.
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In the days of kShamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the 2travellers walked through 3byways.

k ch. 3.31; 4.18. Le. 26.22. 2Ch. 15.5. La. 1.4. Mi. 3.11,12.
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The in hab i tants of lthe villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mmother in Israel.

l Es. 9.19. Je. 35.10,11.
m ch. 4.4,6. Is. 49.23.
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They nchose new gods; then was war in the gates: was othere a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

n ch. 2.12; 17; 18. De. 32.16,21.
o 1Sa. 13.19,22. Le. 26.36. ch. 20.21,25.
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My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that poffered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

p v.2.
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4Speak, ye qthat ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

q ch. 10.4; 12.14. Ps. 107.32; 145.5,11.
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They that are delivered from rthe noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they *rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the 5righteous acts toward the in hab i tants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD sgo down to the gates.

r La. 5.4,9. 1Sa. 9.11. Ge. 24.11.
s ch. 4.16. Is. 28.6.
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Awake, tawake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and ulead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

t Ps. 57.8; 103.1,2; 108.2.
u Ps. 68.18. Ep. 4.8.
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Then vhe made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.

v Ps. 149.8,9; 49.12,14,20. Re. 2.26,27. Is. 41.15,16. Eze. 17.24. 1Co. 1.26-29.
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wOut of Ephraim was there a root of them against xAmalek; yafter thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of zMachir came down agovernors, and out of Zebulun they that 6handle the pen of the writer.

a De. 33.21.
w ch. 3.27; 4.5,6. Jos. 16; 17.
x ch. 3.13.
y ch. 4.10,14.
z Nu. 32.39,40. Jos. 17.1.
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And the bprinces of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also cBarak: he was sent on 7foot into the valley. For 8the divisions of Reuben there were great 9thoughts of heart.

b 1Ch. 12.32.
c ch. 4.14.
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Why abodest thou damong the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? 10For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

d Nu. 32.1. Phi. 2.21; 3.19.
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eGilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did fDan remain in ships? gAsher continued on the sea 11shore, and abode in his 12breaches.

e Jos. 13.24-28.
f Jos. 19.47.
g Jos. 19.29,31.
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hZebulun and Naphtali were a people ithat 13*jeoparded their lives unto the death in jthe high places of the field.

h ch. 4.10.
i Re. 12.11. Es. 4.16. Ac. 20.24. 1Jn. 3.16.
j ch. 4.6,12,14.
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The kkings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in lTaanach by the waters of mMegiddo; nthey took no gain of money.

k Ps. 48.4; 118.8-12. Re. 17.14; 16.16.
l Jos. 12.21; 17.11. Zec. 12.11. ch. 1.27.
m 2Ki. 9.27; 23.29,30.
n ch. 4.15,16.
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They ofought from heaven; the stars in their 14courses fought against Sisera.

o Ps. 77.17,18. Jos. 10.11. 1Sa. 7.10.
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The priver of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. qO my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

p ch. 4.7,13. Ps. 83.9,10. 1Ki. 18.40.
q v.13.
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Then rwere the horsehoofs broken by the means of the 15pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

r Ps. 33.17; 20.7. Pr. 21.31.
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Curse ye Meroz, said the sangel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they tcame not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

s ch. 2.1; 6.11; 4.6; 13.3. Jos. 5.14. Ex. 23.20,23. Is. 63.9.
t Ne. 3.5. 1Sa. 17.48. Re. 17.14. Je. 48.10. ch. 21.5,9,10.
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uBlessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

u Ge. 14.19. Lu. 1.28. Pr. 31.31.
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vHe asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

v ch. 4.19,20.
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She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer 16she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

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17At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down 18dead.

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The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

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Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned 19answer to herself,

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wHave they not sped? have they not divided the *prey; to 20every man a *damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of *divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, *meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

w Ex. 15.9. Job 20.5.
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So xlet all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them ythat love him be as the sun zwhen he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest aforty years.

a ch. 3.11,31. Jos. 11.23.
x Ps. 83.9-18; 48.4-11; 58.10,11; 97.8; 92.7,9; 68.1,2.
y Ep. 6.24. Ps. 19.5; 37.6. 2Sa. 23.4. Pr. 4.18. Job 17.9. Is. 40.31.
z Ps. 19.4,5.