Judges 5:8 - Easy To Read Version God chose new {leaders}
to fight at the city gates. [43] No one could find a shield or a spear
among the 40,000 soldiers of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel. |
I will do these things because the people of Judah quit following me. They have made this a place for foreign gods. The people of Judah have burned sacrifices in this place to other gods. The people did not worship those gods long ago. Their ancestors {\cf2\super [157]} did not worship those gods. These are new gods from other countries. The kings of Judah filled this place with the blood of the innocent children.
The Lord had brought the people of Israel out of Egypt. And the ancestors [17] of these people had worshiped the Lord. But the people of Israel quit following the Lord. The people of Israel began to worship the false gods of the people living around them. That made the Lord angry.
But the people of Israel did not listen to their judges. The people of Israel were not faithful to God—they followed other gods. [19] In the past, the ancestors [20] of the people of Israel obeyed the Lord’s commands. But now the people of Israel changed and stopped obeying the Lord.
Sisera had 900 iron chariots, and he was very cruel to the people of Israel for 20 years. So they cried to the Lord for help.
At the watering holes for the animals, we hear the music of cymbals. People sing about the victories of the Lord, the victories of his soldiers in Israel when the Lord’s people fought at the city gates {and won}!
There were no soldiers. There were no soldiers in Israel until you came, Deborah, until you came to be a mother to Israel. [42]