KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Judges 5:6–8
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Judges 5:6
6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
6In the dayes of *Shamgar the son of Anath, in the dayes of *Iael, the high wayes were vnoccupied, and the †traueilers walked thorow †by-wayes.
- Hebr. walkers of paths.
- Hebr. crooked wayes.
- Chap. 3.31.
- Chap. 4.18.
Judges 5:7
7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, vntill that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges 5:8
8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
8They chose new gods; then was warre in the gates: was there a shield or speare seene among fourtie thousand in Israel?
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DEFINED WORDS
Judges 5:6
Public roads or chief routes of travel.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
unoccupied
Unused, deserted, or left without ordinary travellers or occupants.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
travellers
Persons who journey or go from place to place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
From one side or end to another; by means of; throughout; or because of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 5:7
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
inhabitants
People who dwell or reside in a place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Small settlements or groups of houses, smaller than towns or cities.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Rose; stood up, came forth, or began to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A female parent; figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 5:8
Selected or preferred.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Recently made, begun, known, or received; fresh, different, or not old.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Armed conflict; as a verb, to fight or contend.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A long weapon with a pointed head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to four times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 6
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Open the full verse study8The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
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Open the full verse study31¶ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
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Open the full verse study4The ways of Zion do 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.
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Open the full verse study22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
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Open the full verse study5And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
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Open the full verse study17Howbeit 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¶ And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
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Open the full verse study18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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Open the full verse study12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
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Open the full verse study5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study19I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?
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Open the full verse study23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
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Open the full verse study19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
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Open the full verse study4¶ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
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Open the full verse study13Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
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Open the full verse study12And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.
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Open the full verse study17And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
20But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
22So it came to pass in 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 with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
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Open the full verse study3And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
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