Judges 5

King James Version · 31 verses · 504 cross-references linking it to 273 other chapters

1Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,29 cross-references: Exodus 15:1, Psalms 18:1, Revelation 19:1–3, Revelation 15:3–4, Isaiah 12:1–6
2Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.31 cross-references: Judges 5:9, 2 Chronicles 17:16, Psalms 110:3, Philippians 2:13, Psalms 136:19–20
3Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.22 cross-references: Psalms 138:4–5, Psalms 119:46, Psalms 49:1–2, Ezra 7:21, Psalms 2:10–12
4Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.25 cross-references: Deuteronomy 33:2, Psalms 68:7–8, 2 Samuel 22:8, Job 9:6, Psalms 18:7–15
5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.16 cross-references: Exodus 19:18, Psalms 97:5, Isaiah 64:1–3, Nahum 1:5, Hebrews 12:18
6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.19 cross-references: Isaiah 33:8, Judges 3:31, Leviticus 26:22, Lamentations 1:4, Psalms 125:5
7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.7 cross-references: Isaiah 49:23, 2 Samuel 20:19, Romans 16:13, Esther 9:19, Judges 4:4–6
8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?21 cross-references: Deuteronomy 32:16–17, Judges 2:17, Judges 2:12, 1 Samuel 13:19–22, Judges 4:3
9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.17 cross-references: Judges 5:2, 1 Chronicles 29:9, 2 Corinthians 9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:17, 2 Corinthians 8:3–4
10Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.18 cross-references: Judges 12:14, Judges 10:4, Psalms 105:2, Psalms 145:5, Isaiah 28:6
11They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.21 cross-references: 1 Samuel 12:7, Micah 6:5, Judges 5:8, Lamentations 5:4, Genesis 26:20–22
12Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.22 cross-references: Psalms 68:18, Ephesians 4:8, Psalms 57:8, 2 Timothy 2:26, Jeremiah 31:26
13Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.9 cross-references: Revelation 2:26–27, Isaiah 41:15–16, Psalms 49:14, Revelation 3:9, Psalms 75:7
14Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.18 cross-references: Judges 3:27, Judges 12:15, Judges 3:13, Numbers 32:39–40, Judges 4:5–6
15And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.12 cross-references: Judges 4:14, Judges 4:10, Judges 4:6, Acts 15:39, 2 Corinthians 11:2
16Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.9 cross-references: Numbers 32:24, Numbers 32:1–5, Psalms 4:4, Judges 5:15, Psalms 77:6
17Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.3 cross-references: Joshua 13:25, Joshua 19:24–31, Joshua 13:31
18Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.14 cross-references: Judges 4:10, Judges 4:6, Revelation 12:11, Esther 4:16, Acts 20:24
19The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.27 cross-references: Judges 5:30, Judges 1:27, 1 Kings 4:12, Psalms 118:8–12, Joshua 11:1–15
20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.15 cross-references: Joshua 10:11, Psalms 77:17–18, Judges 4:15, 1 Samuel 7:10
21The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.13 cross-references: Judges 4:7, Psalms 44:5, Micah 7:10, Isaiah 25:10, Psalms 83:9–10
22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.11 cross-references: Isaiah 5:28, Psalms 33:17, Psalms 20:7, Micah 4:13, Psalms 147:10–11
23Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.27 cross-references: Judges 21:9–10, Matthew 25:41, Nehemiah 3:5, 1 Corinthians 3:9, Jeremiah 48:10
24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.11 cross-references: Luke 1:42, Luke 1:28, Genesis 14:19, Judges 4:17, Proverbs 31:31
25He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.4 cross-references: Judges 4:19–21
26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.6 cross-references: 1 Samuel 17:49–51, Judges 4:21, 2 Samuel 20:22
27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.3 cross-references: James 2:13, Psalms 52:7, Matthew 7:2
28The 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?9 cross-references: Song of Solomon 8:14, Proverbs 7:6, 2 Kings 1:2, Judges 4:15, James 5:7
29Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every 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?16 cross-references: Exodus 15:9, Genesis 37:3, 2 Samuel 13:18, Job 20:5, Psalms 45:14
31So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.60 cross-references: Psalms 37:6, 2 Samuel 23:4, Psalms 19:4–5, Psalms 91:14, Daniel 12:3

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People in Judges 5

God, Deborah, Sisera, Barak, Abinoam, Jael, Zebulun, Reuben, Esau, Shamgar, Anath, Ephraim, Amalek, Benjamin, Machir, Issachar, Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Canaan, Heber

Places in Judges 5

Seir, Edom, Sinai, Gilead, Jordan, Asher, Taanach, Megiddo, Canaan, Kishon, Meroz

Hard questions about Judges 5

Archaeology

Shasu of Yhw inscription at Soleb 14th century BC