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After the days of Shamgar son of Anath, after the days of Jael [meaning here Ehud] the caravans ceased, travelers walked through byways.

The villages were unoccupied and rulers ceased in Israel until [a]you arose—you, Deborah, arose—a mother in Israel.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:7 F. F. Bruce in The New Bible Dictionary calls attention to the fact that the repeated Hebrew verb here “may be understood not as the normal first person singular (‘I arose’) but as an archaic second person singular (‘thou didst arise’).”

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