Judges 5:8 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 5:8

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

KJV

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DBT

They chose newgods; then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

ASV

They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?

WEB

When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

YLT

He chooseth new gods, Then war is at the gates! A shield is not seen--and a spear Among forty thousand in Israel.

About this book

Old Testament

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Judges 5:11
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
1 Samuel 13:22
So 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.
Deuteronomy 32:16–17
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

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The song proceeds in these verses to describe the sad condition of the country, the oppression of the people, and the origin of all the national distress in the people's apostasy from God. Idolatry was the cause of foreign invasion and internal inability to resist it.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Either they were disarmed by their oppressors, or they themselves neglected the art of war; so that, though they had spears and shields, they were not to be seen, but were thrown by and suffered to rust, they having neither skill nor will to use them. She shows in one word what it was that brought all this misery upon them: They chose new gods,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It was their idolatry that provoked God to give them up thus into the hands of their enemies. The Lord their God was one Lord, but this would not content them: they must have more, many more, still more.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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