Judges 4:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came up to her for judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ She sat under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came up to her for judgment.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

Common English Bible

⁵ She would sit under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the Ephraim highlands, and the Israelites would come to her to settle disputes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And she was sitting under a palm tree, which was called by her name, between Ramah and Bethel, on Mount Ephraim. And the sons of Israel went up to her for every judgment.

Judges 4:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

1 Samuel 1:1

There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

Joshua 18:25

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Joshua 18:22

Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Joshua 16:2

then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites;

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.

Exodus 18:19

Now listen to me. I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You should represent the people before God and bring their cases to God.

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses sat as judge for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening.

Genesis 35:8

And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.

1 Samuel 25:1

Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

1 Samuel 1:19

They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. Elkanah knew his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

Exodus 18:16

When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”

Judges 4:4

At that time Deborah, a prophet, wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel.

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul heard that David and those who were with him had been located. Saul was sitting at Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there; he administered justice there to Israel and built there an altar to the Lord.