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Judges 5:6 KJV
Judges · chapter 5 · verse 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.Judges 5:6 · King James Version
Judges 5:6 in context
4LORD, 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.
5The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- unoccupiedchâdalproperly, to be flabbyH2308 →
- travellershâlakto walkH1980 →
- highwaysʼôracha well-trodden roadH734 →
- ShamgarShamgarShamgar, an Israelite judgeH8044 →
- walkedyâlakto walkH3212 →
- bywaysʻăqalqalwindingH6128 →
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Here, I. Deborah describes the distressed state of Israel under the tyranny of Jabin, that the greatness of their trouble might make their salvation appear the more illustrious and the more gracious (Jdg 5:6): From the days of Shamgar, who did something towards the deliverance of Israel from the Philistines, to the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-11