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Judges 5:22
22As for the horses of Sisera's army, their feet made a loud noise as they ran away.
Judges 5:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- New International Version (NIV)Then thundered the horses’ hooves— galloping, galloping go his mighty steeds.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then the horses’ hooves pounded, The galloping, galloping of his steeds.
Context of Judges 5:22
20Even the stars fought against Sisera! They travelled across the sky to attack him. 21The Kishon river carried away Sisera's soldiers. It used its power to stop them. So I will be brave and I will continue to fight! As for the horses of Sisera's army, their feet made a loud noise as they ran away. 23The Lord's angel says, “Punish Meroz! Punish the people who live there, because they did not come to help the Lord. They did not agree to fight against the Lord's strong enemy.” 24But Jael should receive great honour! Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, should receive more honour than all other women who live in tents.
Read all of Judges 5Judges 5:22 word by word
אָ֥ז הָלְמ֖וּ עִקְּבֵי־ס֑וּס מִֽדַּהֲר֖וֹת דַּהֲר֥וֹת אַבִּירָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Judges 5:22
- Psalms 20:7Some people hope that their chariots will keep them safe. Other people trust their horses to save them. But we will trust in the name of the Lord our God.
- Psalms 33:17In war, do not hope that even a strong horse will help you to win. You can not trust it to save you.
- Psalms 147:10If a horse is very strong, that does not please him. If a soldier is brave, that does not make him happy.
- Isaiah 5:28Their arrows are sharp. Their bows are ready to shoot. Their horses' feet are as hard as stones. The wheels of their chariots go round very fast.
- Jeremiah 47:4The time has come when the Lord will destroy all the Philistines. None of them will remain to give help to Tyre and Sidon. The Lord is ready to destroy the Philistines who remain. Those are the people who came from the island of Crete.
- Micah 4:13‘People in Zion, get up and fight your enemies,’ God says to you. ‘Hit them like people thresh the wheat. I will make you very strong. Then you will be like dangerous animals with iron horns and metal feet. You will beat enemies from many countries, as men crush things into small pieces. The people from those countries became rich, because they did bad things. But you will bring their riches to me, because I am the Lord of all the earth.’
Commentaries on Judges 5:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Then were the horsehoofs broken - In very ancient times horses were not shod; nor are they to the present day in several parts of the East. Sisera had iron chariots when his hosts were routed; the horses that drew these, being strongly urged on by those who drove them, had their hoofs broken by the roughness of the roads; in consequence of which they became lame, and could not carry off their riders. This is marked as one cause of their disaster.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Probably an allusion to the frantic efforts of the chariot-horses to disengage themselves from the morass (Judges 4:15 note). Mighty ones - Applied to bulls Psalm 22:12 and horses Jeremiah 8:16; Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 50:11; elsewhere, as probably here, to men.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-23Verses 12-23 Deborah called on her own soul to be in earnest. He that will set the hearts of other men on fire with the love of Christ, must himself burn with love. Praising God is a work we should awake to, and awake ourselves unto. She notices who fought against Israel, who fought for them, and who kept away. Who fought against them. They were obstinate enemies to God's people, therefore the more dangerous. Who fought for them. The several tribes that…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-23The battle is described. The brave warriors who followed Deborah and Barak became less important as the Lord called upon the stars of heaven and the Kishon River to destroy Sisera's army.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2219-22. describes the scene of battle and the issue. It would seem (Jud 5:19) that Jabin was reinforced by the troops of other Canaanite princes. The battlefield was near Taanach (now Ta'annuk), on a tell or mound in the level plain of Megiddo (now Leijun), on its southwestern extremity, by the left bank of the Kishon. they took no gain of money--They obtained no plunder.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Judges 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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