KJV King James Version
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
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Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.
WEB World English Bible
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
ASV American Standard Version
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked through byways.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath—In the days of Jael—The ways have ceased, And those going in the paths go in crooked ways.
Surrounding context — Judges 5
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 melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
7 [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
9 My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בִּימֵ֞יH3117 · yomdayשַׁמְגַּ֤רH8044 · sham.garShamgarבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childעֲנָת֙H6067 · a.natAnathבִּימֵ֣יH3117 · yomdayיָעֵ֔לH3278 · ya.elJaelחָדְל֖וּH2308 · cha.dalto ceaseאֳרָח֑וֹתH734 · o.rachwayוְהֹלְכֵ֣יH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentנְתִיב֔וֹתH5410 · na.tivpathיֵלְכ֕וּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentאֳרָח֖וֹתH734 · o.rachwayעֲקַלְקַלּֽוֹת׃H6128 · a.qal.qalcrooked
Cross-references
Isaiah 33:8The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.Judges 3:31And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.Leviticus 26:22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate.Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.Judges 4:17-18Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for [there was] peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.Micah 3:12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.Lamentations 4:18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.2 Chronicles 15:5And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.Psalm 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.
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