Judges 5:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.

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  • Judg 3:31 : 31 And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.
  • Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
  • Lev 26:22 : 22 I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.
  • Lam 4:18 : 18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
  • Judg 4:17-18 : 17 But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.
  • 2 Chr 15:5 : 5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

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  • Judg 5:7-8
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    81%

    7Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.

    8They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

  • Judg 4:14-18
    5 verses
    72%

    14Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.

    15And the Lord sent fear on Sisera and all his war-carriages and all his army before Barak; and Sisera got down from his war-carriage and went in flight on foot.

    16But Barak went after the war-carriages and the army as far as Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all Sisera's army was put to the sword; not a man got away.

    17But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.

    18And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.

  • Judg 3:30-31
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    30So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.

    31And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.

  • Judg 4:4-6
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    71%

    4Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

    5(And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)

    6And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

  • Judg 5:1-2
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    70%

    1At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying:

    2Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.

  • Judg 5:24
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    24Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!

  • Isa 33:8
    70%

    8The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.

  • Judg 4:20-23
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    20And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No.

    21Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.

    22Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.

    23So that day God overcame Jabin, king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.

  • Judg 4:9-10
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    9And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

    10Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.

  • Judg 5:11-12
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    11Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.

    12Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.

  • Judg 20:31
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    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.

  • Judg 6:2-4
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    2And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

    3And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

    4And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

  • Judg 4:12
    67%

    12And word was given to Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, had gone up to Mount Tabor.

  • Judg 4:2
    67%

    2And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

  • Judg 17:6
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    6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

  • Judg 5:28
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    28Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?

  • 2 Chr 15:5
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    5In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

  • Judg 18:7
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    7Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
    66%

    11So the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and took you out of the power of those who were fighting against you on every side, and made you safe.

  • Judg 11:16
    66%

    16But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;

  • Judg 5:5
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    5The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Mic 5:1
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    1And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

  • Josh 11:1
    66%

    1Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

  • 1 Chr 5:17
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    17All these were listed under the names of their families, in the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

  • Judg 3:26
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    26But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.

  • 1 Sam 9:4
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    4So they went through the hill-country of Ephraim and through the land of Shalishah, but they saw no sign of them: then they went through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there: and they went through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not come across them.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

  • Judg 2:16
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    16Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.

  • Judg 19:15
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    15And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.

  • Job 6:18
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    25Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

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    6I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.

  • Judg 11:5
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    5And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;