Devine Scripture

Judges 5:8

Judges chapter 5 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

ASV

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?

Context

v.7The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.

v.8This passage

v.9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, That offered themselves willingly among the people: Bless ye Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Judges 2:17

    And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; but they did not so.

  • Judges 2:12

    and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger.

  • Judges 4:3

    And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 32:16

    They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

  • 1 Samuel 13:19

    Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: