Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
sang Deborah. This verse briefly recites the subject of this inspired song, which consists of eight stanzas: The first opens with a devout thanksgiving. The second describes the magnificent scenes at Mount Sinai. The third states the apostasy and consequent punishment of the Israelites. The fourth contrasts their present happy state. The fifth censures the recreant?? tribes of Reuben, Gad. The sixth records the defeat of the confederate kings of Canaan. The seventh contains a panegyric on Jael. And the eight describes the fond anticipations and disappointment of the mother of Sisera.
Exodus 15:1,21 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the LORD, …
Numbers 21:17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing you to it:
1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD, my horn …
2 Chronicles 20:21,27 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers to …
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Psalm 18:1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
is
Judges 12:1-6 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, …
Luke 1:46,67,68 And Mary said, My soul does magnify the Lord…
Revelation 15:3,4 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song …
Revelation 19:1-3 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, …
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
for the avenging
Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood …
2 Samuel 22:47,48 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of …
Psalm 18:47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
Psalm 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because …
Psalm 94:1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, …
Psalm 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because …
Psalm 136:15,19,20 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy …
Psalm 149:6-9 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword …
Revelation 16:5,6 And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O Lord, …
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …
when
Judges 5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves …
2 Chronicles 17:16 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered …
Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves …
Psalm 110:3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties …
1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against …
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …
2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; …
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philemon 1:14 But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should …
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.
o ye kings
Deuteronomy 32:1,3 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the …
Psalm 2:10-12 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth…
Psalm 49:1,2 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world…
Psalm 119:46 I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
Psalm 138:4,5 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear …
I, even I
Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until …
Genesis 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters on the earth, …
Genesis 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Exodus 31:6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, …
Leviticus 26:28 Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will …
1 Kings 18:22 Then said Elijah to the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet …
1 Kings 19:10,14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: …
Ezra 7:21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers …
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.
The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
mountains
Deuteronomy 4:11 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain …
Psalm 97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence …
Psalm 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Isaiah 64:1-3 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that …
Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is …
Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the …
melted. Heb. flowed. that Sinai
Exodus 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended …
Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the thunder, and the lightning, and the noise …
Deuteronomy 4:11,12 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain …
Deuteronomy 5:22-25 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mount out …
Hebrews 12:18 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that …
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Shamgar
Judges 3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines …
Jael
Judges 4:17,18 However, Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife …
the highways
Leviticus 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your …
2 Chronicles 15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to …
Isaiah 33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: he has broken the …
Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: …
Lamentations 4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is …
Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem …
travellers. Heb. walkers of paths. by-ways. Heb. crooked ways
Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead …
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
offered
Judges 5:2 Praise you the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly …
1 Chronicles 29:9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because …
2 Corinthians 8:3,4,12,17 For to their power, I bear record, yes, and beyond their power they …
2 Corinthians 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers, that they …
Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
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.
the noise
Lamentations 5:4,9 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us…
in the places. Dr. Shaw mentions a beautiful rill of water in Barbary, which runs into a large bason, called shrub we krub, 'drink and be off,' because of the danger of meeting with robbers and assassins in this place, who fall upon those who come to drink.
Genesis 26:20-22 And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, …
Exodus 2:17-19 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and …
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
righteous acts. Heb. righteousnesses
1 Samuel 12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the …
Psalm 145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and …
Micah 6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and …
villages
Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until …
go down
Deuteronomy 22:24 Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and …
Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my …
Isaiah 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for …
Jeremiah 7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, …
Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
awake, Deborah
Psalm 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalm 103:1,2 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name…
Psalm 108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Isaiah 51:9,17 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the …
Isaiah 52:1,2 Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful …
Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen on you.
Jeremiah 31:26 On this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge …
Ephesians 5:14 Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ …
lead
Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have …
Isaiah 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place…
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously…
Isaiah 49:24-26 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered…
Ephesians 4:8 Why he said, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, …
2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, …
Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
he made
Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; …
Isaiah 41:15,16 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: …
Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought …
Daniel 7:18-27 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess …
Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Revelation 2:26,27 And he that overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him will …
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …
the Lord
Psalm 75:7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
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.
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.
the princes
1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding …
Barak
Judges 4:6,14 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, …
foot. Heb. his feet. Beraglaiv, rather, 'with his footmen:'
Acts 20:13 And we went before to ship, and sailed to Assos, there intending …
for the. or in the divisions
Acts 15:39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed …
thoughts. Heb. impressions
Proverbs 22:13 The slothful man said, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused …
Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
sheepfolds
Numbers 32:1-5,24 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great …
Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory …
for, or in
Judges 5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and …
great
Psalm 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, …
Psalm 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own …
Lamentations 3:40,41 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD…
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
kings
Joshua 10:22-27 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those …
Joshua 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, …
Psalm 48:4-6 For, see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together…
Psalm 68:12-14 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided …
Psalm 118:8-12 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man…
Revelation 17:12-14 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received …
Revelation 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, …
Taanach
Judges 1:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her …
1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and …
they took
Judges 5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man …
Genesis 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up my hand to the …
Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelled in the …
Psalm 44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth …
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
horsehoofs. Anciently, horses were not shod; nor are they at the present day in some parts of the East. The flight was so rapid that the hoofs of their horses were splintered and broken by the roughness of the roads; in consequence of which they became lame, and could not carry off their riders.
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …
Psalm 33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any …
Psalm 147:10,11 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure …
Isaiah 5:28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs …
Jeremiah 47:4 Because of the day that comes to spoil all the Philistines, and to …
Micah 4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, …
pransings. or tramplings. or plungings. mighty ones. or as Dr. Waterland renders, 'mighty horses,' or 'strong steeds,' as Dr. Kennicott, i.e. their war-horses, which gives great energy to the text, and renders it perfectly intelligible.
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.
curse ye
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of …
Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed …
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
meroz. This city of Meroz seems to have been, at this time, a place of considerable importance, since something great was expected from it; but probably, after the angel of the Lord had pronounced this curse, it dwindled and like the fig-tree which Christ cursed, withered away; so that we never read of it after this in Scripture. the angel
Judges 2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, …
Judges 4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, …
Judges 6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was …
Judges 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, …
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …
they came
Judges 21:9,10 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the …
Nehemiah 3:5 And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not …
to the help
1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saves not with sword …
1 Samuel 18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will …
1 Samuel 25:28 I pray you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD will …
Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ …
1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, you …
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you …
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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.
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.
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?
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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?
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.
so let
Psalm 48:4,5 For, see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together…
Psalm 58:10,11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall …
Psalm 68:1-3 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate …
Psalm 83:9-18 Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the …
Psalm 92:9 For, see, your enemies, O LORD, for, see, your enemies shall perish; …
Psalm 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because …
Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true…
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
Revelation 19:2,3 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …
them that
Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with …
Psalm 91:14 Because he has set his love on me, therefore will I deliver him: …
Psalm 97:10 You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his …
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love …
1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, …
James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …
1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, …
1 John 4:19-21 We love him, because he first loved us…
1 John 5:2,3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, …
the sun
2 Samuel 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, …
Psalm 19:4,5 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to …
Psalm 37:6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your …
Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more …
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament…
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth …
Matthew 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of …
And the land. The victory here celebrated in this song, was of such happy consequence to Israel, that for the principal part of one age, they enjoyed the peace to which it had been the means of opening the way. The land had rest forty years, that is, so long it was from this victory to the raising up of Gideon. And well would it have been for the Israelites, if while the tribes had rest, they had taken advantage of the cessation from war, and had walked in the fear of the Lord.
Judges 3:11,30 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died…
