Judges 5:6

In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.

Bible in Basic English

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 were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

7Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.

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Cross References

Judges 3:31And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.

2 Chronicles 15:5In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

Isaiah 33:8The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.

Lamentations 4:18They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; 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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