Judges 5:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and the travelers walked through byways.

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  • Judg 3:31 : 31 And after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
  • Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways lie desolate, the traveler ceases; he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
  • Lev 26:22 : 22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.
  • Lam 4:18 : 18 They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
  • Judg 4:17-18 : 17 However, Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; do not fear. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a blanket.
  • 2 Chr 15:5 : 5 And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great troubles were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be upon Israel.

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  • Judg 5:7-8
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    7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

    8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates; was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

  • Judg 4:14-18
    5 verses
    72%

    14And Deborah said to Barak, Arise; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Is not the LORD gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

    15And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak, so that Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.

    16But Barak pursued after the chariots and after the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

    17However, Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

    18And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; do not fear. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a blanket.

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

    31And after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

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

    5And she sat under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

    6And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go, and lead the way to 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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    1Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

    2Praise the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

  • Judg 5:24
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    24Blessed above women shall Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, be; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

  • Isa 33:8
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    8The highways lie desolate, the traveler ceases; he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.

  • Judg 4:20-23
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    20Then he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, Is there a man here? you shall say, No.

    21Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, went softly to him, and drove the peg into his temples, and it went down into the ground, for he was fast asleep and exhausted. So he died.

    22And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. And when he came into her tent, there lay Sisera dead, with the peg in his temples.

    23So God subdued Jabin king of Canaan on that day before the children of Israel.

  • Judg 4:9-10
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    9And she said, I will surely go with you; nevertheless the journey that you take shall not be for your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. So Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

    10And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet, and Deborah went up with him.

  • Judg 5:11-12
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    11Those who are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of His villages in Israel; then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

    12Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song; arise, Barak, and lead your captives captive, son of Abinoam.

  • Judg 20:31
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    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

  • Judg 6:2-4
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    2And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strongholds.

    3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

    4And they encamped against them, and destroyed the produce of the earth till you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

  • Judg 4:12
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    12And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.

  • Judg 4:2
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    2And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

  • Judg 17:6
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    6In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

  • Judg 5:28
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    28The mother of Sisera looked out of a window, and cried through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? why do the wheels of his chariots delay?'

  • 2 Chr 15:5
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    5And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great troubles were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

  • Judg 18:7
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    7Then the five men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people that were there, how they dwelt securely like the Zidonians, quiet and secure, and there was no magistrate in the land to put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with anyone.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
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    11And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you dwelled safe.

  • Judg 11:16
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    16But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

  • Judg 5:5
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    5The mountains melted before the LORD, even that Sinai, before the LORD God of Israel.

  • Mic 5:1
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    1Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us; they shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

  • Josh 11:1
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    1And it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, he 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 recorded by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

  • Judg 3:26
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    26And Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries and escaped to Seirath.

  • 1 Sam 9:4
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  • Hos 2:6
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    6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.

  • Judg 2:16
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    16Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

  • Judg 19:15
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    15They turned aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah, and when he went in, he sat down in a street of the city, for there was no one who took them into his house to lodge.

  • Job 6:18
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    18The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

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    1In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite staying on the side of Mount Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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    25Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

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  • Judg 11:5
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    5And it happened, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: