Judges 5:6

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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

7The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

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Cross References

Judges 3:31And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox-goad, and he also saved Israel.

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

Isaiah 33:8The highways lay waste. The wayfaring man ceases. [The enemy] has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He does not regard man.

Lamentations 4:18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

Matthew Henry on Judges 5:2-6

The Song of Deborah and Barak. ( b. c. 1285.) 1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, 2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord ; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel. 4 Lord , when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 5 The mountains… Read the whole commentary →

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