Judges 5:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?

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  • Num 32:24 : 24 So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.
  • Judg 5:15 : 15 Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart.
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)
  • Ps 77:6 : 6 The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.
  • Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; 41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
  • Num 32:1-5 : 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle. 5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

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  • 15 Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart.

  • 17 Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets.

  • Num 32:6-7
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    70%

    6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?

    7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

  • Num 32:1-2
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    1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;

    2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,

  • 21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,

  • 6 Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small.

  • 15 And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,

  • Gen 35:22-23
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    22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

    23 Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

  • 6 And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part.

  • Exod 1:2-3
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    2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

    3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

  • Num 1:20-21
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    20 The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

    21 Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

  • 16 The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go forward second.

  • 7 Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

  • 3 Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

  • Gen 37:15-16
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    15 And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

    16 And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.

  • 1 And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

  • 36 And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;

  • 23 And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.

  • 37 Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

  • 15 And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.

  • 18 And of Zebulun he said, Be glad, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in your tents.

  • 7 These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

  • 1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;

  • Ezek 34:6-7
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    6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.

    7 For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

  • 21 But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.

  • 25 For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.

  • 8 Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.

  • 4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

  • 27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

  • 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?

  • 9 So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.

  • 36 And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

  • 6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!

  • 2 And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?

  • 10 On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief.

  • 14 These are the heads of their fathers' families: the sons of Reuben the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben.

  • 9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

  • 14 And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?