Judges 5:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.”
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“When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?”
King James Version · Public Domain“They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He chooseth new gods, Then war <FI>is<Fi> at the gates! A shield is not seen--and a spear Among forty thousand in Israel.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 5:8 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
- Judges 2:12Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
- Judges 2:17Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
- Judges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
- 1 Samuel 13:19And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
- Jeremiah 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).