Judges 5:6
New International Version
“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.

New Living Translation
“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, and in the days of Jael, people avoided the main roads, and travelers stayed on winding pathways.

English Standard Version
“In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.

Berean Standard Bible
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

King James Bible
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

New King James Version
“In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days of Jael, The highways were deserted, And the travelers walked along the byways.

New American Standard Bible
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the roads were deserted, And travelers went by roundabout ways.

NASB 1995
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted, And travelers went by roundabout ways.

NASB 1977
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted, And travelers went by roundabout ways.

Legacy Standard Bible
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the paths had ceased, So travelers went by roundabout paths.

Amplified Bible
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted, And travelers went by roundabout ways.

Christian Standard Bible
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the main roads were deserted because travelers kept to the side roads.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the main ways were deserted because travelers kept to the side roads.

American Standard Version
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked through byways.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, and in the days of Anayl, they cut off the roads and those walking in the straight paths walked in perverse ways

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In the days of Samegar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, they deserted the ways, and went in by-ways; they went in crooked paths.

Contemporary English Version
In the time of Shamgar son of Anath, and now again in Jael's time, roads were too dangerous for caravans. Travelers had to take the back roads,

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the days of Samgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel the paths rested: and they that went by them, walked through by-ways.

English Revised Version
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, roads were deserted. Those who traveled took back roads.

Good News Translation
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans no longer went through the land, and travelers used the back roads.

International Standard Version
During the lifetime of Anath's son Shamgar and during the lifetime of Jael highways remained deserted, while travelers kept to back roads.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways ceased, And the travellers walked through byways.

Literal Standard Version
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath—In the days of Jael—The ways have ceased, | And those going in the paths go [in] crooked ways.

Majority Standard Bible
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

New American Bible
In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased: Those who traveled the roads now traveled by roundabout paths.

NET Bible
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael caravans disappeared; travelers had to go on winding side roads.

New Revised Standard Version
“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased and travelers kept to the byways.

New Heart English Bible
"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.

Webster's Bible Translation
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through by-ways.

World English Bible
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.

Young's Literal Translation
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath -- In the days of Jael -- The ways have ceased, And those going in the paths go in crooked ways.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Song of Deborah and Barak
5The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel. 6In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways. 7Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.…

Cross References
Leviticus 26:22
I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

Judges 3:31
After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.

Judges 4:17
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Judges 5:7
Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

2 Chronicles 15:5
In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

Jeremiah 6:25
Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.


Treasury of Scripture

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways.

Shamgar

Judges 3:31
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

Jael

Judges 4:17,18
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite…

the highways

Leviticus 26:22
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

2 Chronicles 15:5
And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

Isaiah 33:8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

travellers.

Psalm 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

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Abandoned Anath Byways Caravans Ceased Crooked Deserted Highways Jael Ja'el Kept Roads Roundabout Shamgar Side Travelers Travellers Unoccupied Used Walked Ways Winding
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Judges 5
1. The Song of Deborah and Barak














(6) In the days of Shamgar.--In this and the two next verses is described the misery and dejection of Israel; and the names of Shamgar and Jael are mentioned to enhance the glory of Deborah, by showing that even the presence among the Israelites of two such heroic souls as Shamgar and Jael was unavailing to deliver them until Deborah arose. That Shamgar is thus (apparently) alluded to as a contemporary of Jael has an important bearing on the chronology; for it at least shows that simultaneous struggles may have been going on against the Philistines in the south and the Canaanites in the north.

In the days of Jael.--It has been thought so strange that Deborah should mention the name of the Bedouin chieftainess as marking the epoch, that some have supposed "Jael" to be the name of some unknown judge; and some have even proposed to read Jair. Others render it "the helper," and suppose that Ehud, or Shamgar, is referred to. But (1) Jael is essentially a woman's name (see Judges 4:17; Proverbs 5:19); (2) she is mentioned prominently in this very song as having put the finishing stroke to the victory of Israel; and (3) she may have been--and various incidents in the history lead us to suppose that she was--a woman of great importance and influence, even independently of her murder of Sisera.

The highways were unoccupied.--Literally, kept holiday. This had been foretold in Leviticus 26:22. The grass grew on them; there was no one to occupy them. "The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth" (Isaiah 33:8). "The land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned" (Zechariah 7:14). (Comp. 2Chronicles 15:5; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 4:18.) . . .

Verse 6. - From what misery God had saved the people! In the days of her predecessor Shamgar, when the Philistines overran the country, when Heber the Kenite still dwelt in the south of Judah, all traffic ceased in the land. The caravans were stopped, and travellers slunk into the by-ways.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In the days
בִּימֵ֞י (bî·mê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of Shamgar
שַׁמְגַּ֤ר (šam·gar)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8044: Shamgar -- an Israelite judge

son
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Anath,
עֲנָת֙ (‘ă·nāṯ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6067: Anath -- father of Shamgar

in the days
בִּימֵ֣י (bî·mê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of Jael,
יָעֵ֔ל (yā·‘êl)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3278: Jael -- a Canaanite woman

the highways
אֳרָח֑וֹת (’o·rā·ḥō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan

were deserted
חָדְל֖וּ (ḥā·ḏə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

and the travelers
וְהֹלְכֵ֣י (wə·hō·lə·ḵê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

took
יֵלְכ֕וּ (yê·lə·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

the byways.
עֲקַלְקַלּֽוֹת׃ (‘ă·qal·qal·lō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 6128: Winding


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