Judges 5:6

Judges 5:7 →

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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Interpretation

Deborah describes the distressed state of Israel under the tyranny of Jabin, that their salvation might appear more gracious. She shows what brought this misery upon them.

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This thought runs through Judges 5:6-7.

Judges 5:6 Judges 5:7

Glossary

Jael Person: Mountain-goat, the wife of Heber the Kenite ( Judg. 4:17-22 ).
Shamgar Person: The Philistines from the maritime plain had made incursions into the Hebrew upland for the purposes of plunder, when one of this name, the son of Anath, otherwise unknown.