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16 Why did you sit at home among the sheepfolds,

Playing your shepherd pipes?

Yes, the tribe of Reuben has an uneasy conscience.

17 Why did Gilead remain across the Jordan,

And why did Dan remain with his ships?

And why did Asher sit unmoved

Upon the seashore,

At ease beside his harbors?)

18 But the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali

Dared to die upon the fields of battle.

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16 Why did you stay among the sheep pens[a](A)
    to hear the whistling for the flocks?(B)
In the districts of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.
17 Gilead(C) stayed beyond the Jordan.
    And Dan, why did he linger by the ships?
Asher(D) remained on the coast(E)
    and stayed in his coves.
18 The people of Zebulun(F) risked their very lives;
    so did Naphtali(G) on the terraced fields.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:16 Or the campfires; or the saddlebags