Judges 5:8

New Century Version

At that time they chose to follow new gods. Because of this, enemies fought us at our city gates. No one could find a shield or a spear among the forty thousand people of Israel.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:4

The people of Judah have quit following me. They have made this a place for foreign gods. They have burned sacrifices to other gods that neither they, nor their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah had ever known before. They filled this place with the blood of innocent people.

Judges 2:12

They quit following the Lord, the God of their ancestors who had brought them out of Egypt. They began to worship the gods of the people who lived around them, and that made the Lord angry.

Judges 2:17

But the Israelites did not listen to their judges. They were not faithful to God but worshiped other gods instead. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord’s commands, but they quickly turned away and did not obey.

Judges 4:3

Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and was very cruel to the people of Israel for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.

Judges 5:11

Listen to the sound of the singers at the watering holes. There they tell about the victories of the Lord, the victories of the Lord’s warriors in Israel. Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates.

Judges 5:7

There were no warriors in Israel until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose to be a mother to Israel.