Judges 5:6

World English Bible (2000)

"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.

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  • Judg 3:31 : 31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel.
  • Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
  • Lev 26:22 : 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
  • Lam 4:18 : 18 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
  • Judg 4:17-18 : 17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
  • 2 Chr 15:5 : 5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.

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  • Judg 5:7-8
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    81%

    7The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

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

  • Judg 4:14-18
    5 verses
    72%

    14Deborah said to Barak, "Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn't Yahweh gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

    15Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

    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; there was not a man left.

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

    18Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

  • Judg 3:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.

    31After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel.

  • Judg 4:4-6
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    71%

    4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

    5She lived 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.

    6She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, "Hasn't Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, 'Go and draw 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
    2 verses
    70%

    1Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

    2"Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

  • Judg 5:24
    70%

    24"Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

  • Isa 33:8
    70%

    8The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man.

  • Judg 4:20-23
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    20He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there any man here?' that you shall say, 'No.'"

    21Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

    22Behold, 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." He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.

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

  • Judg 4:9-10
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    69%

    9She said, "I will surely go with you: nevertheless, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

    10Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

  • Judg 5:11-12
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    11Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. "Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

    12'Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.'

  • Judg 20:31
    68%

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

  • Judg 6:2-4
    3 verses
    68%

    2The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

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

    4and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

  • Judg 4:12
    67%

    12They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.

  • Judg 4:2
    67%

    2Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

  • Judg 17:6
    67%

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

  • Judg 5:28
    67%

    28"Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother looked through the lattice. 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?'

  • 2 Chr 15:5
    67%

    5In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

  • Judg 18:7
    67%

    7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
    66%

    11Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.

  • Judg 11:16
    66%

    16but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

  • Judg 5:5
    66%

    5The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, even Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • Mic 5:1
    66%

    1Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

  • Josh 11:1
    66%

    1It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

  • 1 Chr 5:17
    66%

    17All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

  • Judg 3:26
    66%

    26Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.

  • 1 Sam 9:4
    66%

    4He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn't find them.

  • Hos 2:6
    66%

    6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

  • Judg 2:16
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    16Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.

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

  • Job 6:18
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    18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • Judg 19:1
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    1It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

  • Jer 6:25
    65%

    25Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

  • Zeph 3:6
    65%

    6I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

  • Judg 11:5
    65%

    5It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;