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Judges 5:1 |
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Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam
on that day, saying, |
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Judges 5:2 |
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Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel,
when the people willingly offered themselves. |
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Judges 5:3 |
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Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I,
even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. |
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Judges 5:4 |
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LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou
marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped,
the clouds also dropped water. |
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Judges 5:5 |
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The mountains melted from before the LORD, even
that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel. |
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Judges 5:6 |
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In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in
the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through
byways. |
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Judges 5:7 |
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The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they
ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. |
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Judges 5:8 |
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They chose new gods; then was war in the gates:
was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? |
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Judges 5:9 |
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My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. |
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Judges 5:10 |
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Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that
sit in judgment, and walk by the way. |
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Judges 5:11 |
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They that are delivered from the noise of archers
in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of
the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel:
then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. |
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Judges 5:12 |
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Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a
song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. |
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Judges 5:13 |
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Then he made him that remaineth have dominion
over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. |
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Judges 5:14 |
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Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against
Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors,
and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. |
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Judges 5:15 |
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And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions
of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart. |
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Judges 5:16 |
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Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear
the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings
of heart. |
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Judges 5:17 |
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Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan
remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. |
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Judges 5:18 |
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Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded
their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. |
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Judges 5:19 |
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The kings came and fought, then fought the
kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. |
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Judges 5:20 |
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They fought from heaven; the stars in their
courses fought against Sisera. |
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Judges 5:21 |
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The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient
river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. |
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Judges 5:22 |
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Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means
of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones. |
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Judges 5:23 |
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Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD,
curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of
the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. |
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Judges 5:24 |
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Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of
Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. |
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Judges 5:25 |
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He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought
forth butter in a lordly dish. |
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Judges 5:26 |
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She put her hand to the nail, and her right
hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote
off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. |
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Judges 5:27 |
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At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down:
at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. |
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Judges 5:28 |
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The mother of Sisera looked out at a window,
and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry
the wheels of his chariots? |
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Judges 5:29 |
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Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned
answer to herself, |
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Judges 5:30 |
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Have they not sped? have they not divided the
prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey
of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides,
meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? |
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Judges 5:31 |
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So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but
let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the
land had rest forty years. |
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