Judges 5:6

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In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.

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  • Judg 3:31 : 31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.
  • Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways are deserted; travelers have ceased. Covenants are broken, cities are despised, and no one cares about humanity.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
  • Lev 26:22 : 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.
  • Lam 4:18 : 18 Our steps were closely pursued so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near; our days were fulfilled, for our end had come.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.
  • Judg 4:17-18 : 17 Meanwhile, Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite. 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid." So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
  • 2 Chr 15:5 : 5 In those days, there was no peace for those who went out or those who came in, but great unrest troubled all the inhabitants of the lands.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

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    7Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

    8When they chose new gods, then war came to the city gates. Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

  • Judg 4:14-18
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    14Then Deborah said to Barak, "Get up! This is the day the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

    15The LORD threw Sisera, all his chariots, and his entire army into confusion before Barak by the edge of the sword. Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

    16Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and the entire army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.

    17Meanwhile, Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.

    18Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid." So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

  • Judg 3:30-31
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    30That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.

    31After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.

  • Judg 4:4-6
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    4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

    5She would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came up to her for judgment.

    6She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you: 'Go, lead ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun to Mount Tabor'"?

  • Judg 5:1-2
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    1On that day, Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, sang this song:

    2When the leaders in Israel take charge, when the people willingly offer themselves—praise the Lord!

  • Judg 5:24
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    24Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

  • Isa 33:8
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    8The highways are deserted; travelers have ceased. Covenants are broken, cities are despised, and no one cares about humanity.

  • Judg 4:20-23
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    20He said to her, "Stand at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes and asks you, 'Is there a man here?' say, 'No.'"

    21But Jael, the wife of Heber, picked up a tent peg and a hammer, and she went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground—and he died.

    22Just then, Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. She said, "Come, and I will show you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.

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  • Judg 4:9-10
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    9She said, "I will certainly go with you. However, the honor will not be yours on the journey you are about to take, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman." So Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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  • Judg 5:11-12
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    11The voices of the archers at the watering places recount the righteous acts of the Lord, the righteous acts of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the Lord went down to the city gates.

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    2Midian's power overwhelmed Israel, and because of Midian, the Israelites made hiding places for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

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    12When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

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    2So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor, and the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

  • Judg 17:6
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    6In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

  • Judg 5:28
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    28Through the window peered Sisera's mother; behind the lattice she cried out, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?'

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    5In those days, there was no peace for those who went out or those who came in, but great unrest troubled all the inhabitants of the lands.

  • Judg 18:7
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    7The five men left and came to Laish. They saw that the people there were living in security, like the Sidonians—peaceful and unsuspecting. No one in the land was oppressing them or causing harm. They lived far from the Sidonians and had no relationship with any other people.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
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    11Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hand of your enemies on every side, so that you lived in safety.

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    16For when they came up from Egypt, Israel traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and arrived at Kadesh.

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    5The mountains melted before the Lord, even Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

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    26While they lingered, Ehud escaped, passed by the carved images, and fled to Seirah.

  • 1 Sam 9:4
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    4So they went through the hill country of Ephraim and the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they went through the land of Shaalim, but the donkeys were not there. They passed through the territory of Benjamin, but they still did not find them.

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