Jud 5:2
5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the {a}
people willingly offered themselves.
(a) That is, the two tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali.
Jud 5:6
5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of
Jael, the highways were {b} unoccupied, and the travellers
walked through byways.
(b) For fear of the enemies.
Jud 5:7
5:7 [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in
Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a {c}
mother in Israel.
(c) Miraculously stirred up by God to pity them and deliver
them.
Jud 5:8
5:8 They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there
a {d} shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
(d) They had no heart to resist their enemies.
Jud 5:10
5:10 Speak, ye that ride on {e} white asses, ye that sit {f} in
judgment, and walk by the way.
(e) You governors.
(f) Or by Middin, as in danger of your enemies.
Jud 5:12
5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise,
Barak, and lead {h} thy captivity captive, thou son of
Abinoam.
(h) That is, they who kept your people in captivity.
Jud 5:14
5:14 Out of Ephraim {i} [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.
(i) Joshua first fought against Amalek, and Saul destroyed
him.
Jud 5:15
5:15 And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even {l}
Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the
valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great
{m} thoughts of heart.
(l) Even the whole tribe.
(m) They marvelled that they did not cross the Jordan to
help them.
Jud 5:17
5:17 {n} Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in
ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his
{o} breaches.
(n) She reproves all those who did not come to help their
brethren in their time of need.
(o) Either by hearing of the sea, or by mining,
Jud 5:19
5:19 The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of
Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no
gain of {p} money.
(p) They won nothing, but lost all.
Jud 5:21
5:21 The river of Kishon {q} swept them away, that ancient
river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down
strength.
(q) As a broom does to the filth of the house.
Jud 5:23
5:23 Curse ye {r} 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.
(r) It was a city near Tabor, where they fought.
Jud 5:25
5:25 He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought
forth {s} butter in a lordly dish.
(s) Some read churned milk in a great cup.
Jud 5:29
5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, {t} she returned answer
to herself,
(t) That is, she comforted herself.
Jud 5:30
5:30 Have 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] {u} for the
necks of [them that take] the spoil?
(u) Because he was chief of the army.
Jud 5:31
5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them
that love him [be] as the {x} sun when he goeth forth in
his might. And the land had rest forty years.
(x) Shall grow daily more and more in God's favour.
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