Judges 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased, and travelers kept to the byways.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ After the days of Shamgar son of Anath, after the days of Jael [meaning here Ehud] the caravans ceased, travelers walked through byways.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁶ In the days of Shamgar, Anath’s son, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased. Those traveling by road kept to the backroads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the paths were quiet. And whoever entered by them, walked along rough byways.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ In the days of Samgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel the paths rested: and they that went by them walked through by-ways.

Judges 5:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:5

In those times it was not safe for anyone to go or come, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Isaiah 33:8

The highways are deserted; travelers have quit the road. The treaty is broken; its oaths are despised, the people are disregarded.

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go out into the field or walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.”

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her young girls grieve, and her lot is bitter.

Lamentations 4:18

They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.

Leviticus 26:22

I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock; they shall make you few in number, and your roads shall be deserted.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.

Judges 3:31

After him came Shamgar son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an oxgoad. He, too, delivered Israel.

Judges 5:7

The peasantry prospered in Israel; they grew fat on plunder, because you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.