Judges 5:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
  • Judg 2:12 : 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
  • Judg 2:17 : 17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.
  • Judg 4:3 : 3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, for Sisera had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 13:19-22 : 19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears: 20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen each man's plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. 21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 22 So it came to pass on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but they were found with Saul and Jonathan his son.

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    6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and the travelers walked through byways.

    7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

  • Judg 5:9
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    9My heart is with the rulers of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.

  • Judg 20:34
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    34And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was heavy; but they did not know that disaster was near them.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2And the leaders of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

  • 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 20:17-20
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    71%

    17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword; all these were men of war.

    18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Who shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.

    19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

    20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel set themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

  • Josh 22:12
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    12And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up to war against them.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
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    2And the Philistines arranged themselves against Israel, and when they joined battle, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, and they killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
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    22For many fell down slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the captivity.

  • Judg 10:6
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    6And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and did not serve Him.

  • Num 31:4-5
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    4From every tribe, a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.

    5So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
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    10And the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled every man to his tent, and there was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

  • Judg 5:11
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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.

  • Judg 4:5-6
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    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 4:3
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    3And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, for Sisera had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

  • Judg 8:33-34
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    33And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

    34And the children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:

  • Judg 20:10
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    10And we will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly they have committed in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 12:9
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    9And when they forgot the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

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    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

  • Judg 18:16-17
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    16And the six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

    17And the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there and took the carved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

  • Judg 4:10
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    68%

    18The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh—valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, and to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war—were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that went out to the war.

  • Judg 4:13-14
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    68%

    13And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles to the river Kishon.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    68%

    17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7Where the people of Israel were defeated before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

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    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

  • Judg 18:11
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    11And from there went of the family of the Danites from Zorah and from Eshtaol six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

  • 1 Sam 13:19
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    19Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears:

  • 1 Sam 7:7
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    7And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

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    8And there was war again; and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

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    8And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

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    27And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

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    19The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

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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:

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    21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

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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.