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Judges Chapter 5

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Judges

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The chapter opens with Gideon’s men celebrating their victory over the Midianites who had been terrorizing Israel. It then shifts to a lament for Israel’s sin and the loss of God’s protection, highlighting the need for repentance and faithful leadership.

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(1) Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
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Exodus 15:1Exodus 15:21Numbers 21:17I Samuel 2:1II Chronicles 20:21II Chronicles 20:27Job 38:7Psalms 18:1Isaiah 12:1Isaiah 12:2Isaiah 12:3Isaiah 12:4

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Judges 4:14Judges 5:12

(2) Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
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Deuteronomy 32:43II Samuel 22:47II Samuel 22:48Psalms 18:47Psalms 48:11Psalms 94:1Psalms 97:8Psalms 136:15Psalms 136:19Psalms 136:20Psalms 149:6Psalms 149:7

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I Chronicles 29:9I Chronicles 29:17Ezra 3:5Psalms 113:1Psalms 135:1Psalms 148:1

(3) 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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Deuteronomy 32:1Deuteronomy 32:3Psalms 2:10Psalms 2:11Psalms 2:12Psalms 49:1Psalms 49:2Psalms 119:46Psalms 138:4Psalms 138:5Judges 5:7Genesis 6:17

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Psalms 47:6Psalms 104:33Psalms 147:7II Chronicles 23:13II Chronicles 29:30Psalms 7:17

(4) 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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Deuteronomy 33:2Psalms 68:7Psalms 68:8Habakkuk 3:3Habakkuk 3:4Habakkuk 3:5Habakkuk 3:6II Samuel 22:8Job 9:6Psalms 18:7Psalms 18:8Psalms 18:9

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Psalms 68:8Psalms 148:4Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5II Samuel 21:10

(5) The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 4:11Psalms 97:5Psalms 114:4Isaiah 64:1Isaiah 64:2Isaiah 64:3Nahum 1:5Habakkuk 3:10Exodus 19:18Exodus 20:18Deuteronomy 4:12Deuteronomy 5:22

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Joshua 11:21Zechariah 6:1

(6) 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 3:31Judges 4:17Judges 4:18Leviticus 26:22II Chronicles 15:5Isaiah 33:8Lamentations 1:4Lamentations 4:18Micah 3:12Psalms 125:5

(7) 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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Esther 9:19Judges 4:4Judges 4:5Judges 4:6II Samuel 20:19Isaiah 49:23Romans 16:13

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Luke 12:53Ezra 4:24Isaiah 14:4Mark 4:39Luke 8:24Genesis 19:35

(8) 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 2:12Judges 2:17Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17Judges 4:3I Samuel 13:19I Samuel 13:20I Samuel 13:21I Samuel 13:22

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Judges 10:6Revelation 21:13I Chronicles 5:18I Chronicles 12:24II Chronicles 25:5Nehemiah 13:19

(9) My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
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Judges 5:2I Chronicles 29:9II Corinthians 8:3II Corinthians 8:4II Corinthians 8:12II Corinthians 8:17II Corinthians 9:5

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4I Chronicles 29:9

(10) Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
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Psalms 105:2Psalms 145:5Psalms 145:11Judges 10:4Judges 12:14Psalms 107:32Isaiah 28:6Joel 3:12

(11) 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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Lamentations 5:4Lamentations 5:9Genesis 26:20Genesis 26:21Genesis 26:22Exodus 2:17Exodus 2:18Exodus 2:19Isaiah 12:3I Samuel 12:7Psalms 145:7Micah 6:5

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Matthew 10:41Ezekiel 3:21I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17

(12) Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
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Psalms 57:8Psalms 103:1Psalms 103:2Psalms 108:2Isaiah 51:9Isaiah 51:17Isaiah 52:1Isaiah 52:2Isaiah 60:1Jeremiah 31:26I Corinthians 15:34Ephesians 5:14

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Psalms 57:8Isaiah 51:9Psalms 108:2Isaiah 51:17Isaiah 52:1Psalms 7:6

(13) 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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Psalms 49:14Isaiah 41:15Isaiah 41:16Ezekiel 17:24Daniel 7:18Daniel 7:19Daniel 7:20Daniel 7:21Daniel 7:22Daniel 7:23Daniel 7:24Daniel 7:25

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Daniel 7:14Daniel 11:5Daniel 4:34Daniel 6:26Numbers 24:19Daniel 4:3

(14) 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 3:27Judges 4:5Judges 4:6Judges 3:13Exodus 17:8Exodus 17:9Exodus 17:10Exodus 17:11Exodus 17:12Exodus 17:13Exodus 17:14Exodus 17:15

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Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13

(15) 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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I Chronicles 12:32Judges 4:6Judges 4:14Acts 20:13Acts 15:39Proverbs 22:13II Corinthians 11:2

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Numbers 2:5Joshua 19:17Psalms 68:27Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16Genesis 35:23

(16) 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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Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:2Numbers 32:3Numbers 32:4Numbers 32:5Numbers 32:24Philippians 2:21Philippians 3:19Judges 5:15Psalms 4:4Psalms 77:6Lamentations 3:40

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I Samuel 1:8

(17) 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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Joshua 13:25Joshua 13:31Joshua 19:24Joshua 19:25Joshua 19:26Joshua 19:27Joshua 19:28Joshua 19:29Joshua 19:30Joshua 19:31

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John 10:40Joshua 19:47Deuteronomy 1:46I Samuel 1:8II Kings 12:7Joshua 4:7

(18) 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 4:10Esther 4:16Acts 20:24I John 3:16Revelation 12:11Judges 4:6Judges 4:14

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5II Samuel 19:5

(19) 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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Joshua 10:22Joshua 10:23Joshua 10:24Joshua 10:25Joshua 10:26Joshua 10:27Joshua 11:1Joshua 11:2Joshua 11:3Joshua 11:4Joshua 11:5Joshua 11:6

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II Kings 12:4Judges 5:20Revelation 12:7Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13II Samuel 12:27

(20) They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
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Joshua 10:11I Samuel 7:10Psalms 77:17Psalms 77:18Judges 4:15

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Judges 5:19Revelation 12:7I Samuel 12:9

(21) 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 4:7Judges 4:13I Kings 18:40Psalms 83:9Psalms 83:10Genesis 49:18Psalms 44:5Isaiah 25:10Micah 7:10

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Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2Joshua 17:9Genesis 2:14

(22) Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
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Psalms 20:7Psalms 33:17Psalms 147:10Psalms 147:11Isaiah 5:28Jeremiah 47:4Micah 4:13

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Isaiah 13:3Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9

(23) 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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I Samuel 26:19Jeremiah 48:10I Corinthians 16:22Judges 2:1Judges 4:6Judges 6:11Judges 13:3Matthew 25:41Judges 21:9Judges 21:10Nehemiah 3:5I Samuel 17:47

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Exodus 23:5II Samuel 10:11II Kings 6:27I Chronicles 19:12II Chronicles 14:11II Chronicles 28:23

(24) 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 4:17Genesis 14:19Proverbs 31:31Luke 1:28Luke 1:42

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Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31Luke 1:42Judges 4:17Genesis 3:14Exodus 40:19

(25) He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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Judges 4:19Judges 4:20Judges 4:21

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I Kings 3:11Isaiah 7:22II Chronicles 1:11

(26) 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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I Samuel 17:49I Samuel 17:50I Samuel 17:51II Samuel 20:22

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Judges 4:21Exodus 9:25Joshua 7:5Joshua 11:8I Samuel 6:19I Samuel 17:35

(27) 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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Psalms 52:7Matthew 7:2James 2:13

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II Kings 4:37Genesis 15:12Numbers 11:9Numbers 22:31Deuteronomy 9:25Judges 16:30

(28) 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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II Kings 1:2Song of Solomon 2:9Judges 4:15Song of Solomon 8:14James 5:7

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I Samuel 1:8Luke 12:53Genesis 4:6I Samuel 19:17I Chronicles 21:3Job 3:11

(29) Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
(30) 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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Exodus 15:9Job 20:5Genesis 37:3II Samuel 13:18Psalms 45:14

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Isaiah 33:23Jeremiah 30:16II Samuel 13:18II Samuel 13:19I Chronicles 29:2Ezekiel 16:16

(31) 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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Psalms 48:4Psalms 48:5Psalms 58:10Psalms 58:11Psalms 68:1Psalms 68:2Psalms 68:3Psalms 83:9Psalms 83:10Psalms 83:11Psalms 83:12Psalms 83:13

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Luke 6:32Ecclesiastes 1:5Joshua 21:44I Chronicles 22:9Joshua 10:13Psalms 92:9

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