Judges 5:2
“When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.
BSB
ASV
For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves willingly, Bless ye Jehovah.
KJV
Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
Render “For the leading of the leaders in Israel (the princes), for the willingness of the people (to follow them) bless ye the Lord.” See Deu 32:42 note, and compare Jdg 5:9 and Jdg 5:13, where the nobles and the people are again contrasted.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Philippians 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
leads to
equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of…
Through
Psalms 110:3Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
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He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
