Judges 5:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ [Formerly] they chose new gods; then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among 40,000 in Israel?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?

Common English Bible

⁸ When they chose new gods, then war came to the city gates. Yet there wasn’t a shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overturned the gates of the enemies. A shield with a spear was not seen among the forty thousand of Israel.

Judges 5:8 Cross References

Jeremiah 19:4

Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by burning incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Judges 2:12

and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.

Judges 2:17

And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.

Judges 4:3

Then the people of Israel cried to the Lord for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

Judges 5:11

To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel. “Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.

Judges 5:7

The peasantry ceased in Israel, they ceased until you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.