Judges 5:8 “When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield o…”

Judges 5:8

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They chose new gods: then was warre in the gates. Was there a shielde or speare seene among fourtie thousand of Israel?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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Cross references

“new gods”

Judges 2:12 Judges 2:17 Deuteronomy 32:16 Deuteronomy 32:17

Judges 2:12 · BSB

Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger…

Judges 2:17 · BSB

Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s c…

Deuteronomy 32:16 · BSB

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

Deuteronomy 32:17 · BSB

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

“was there”

Judges 4:3 1 Samuel 13:19–22

Judges 4:3 · BSB

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

1 Samuel 13:19–22 · BSB

And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

9My heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!

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