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## Judges 5:2-31 in Context (Verses 1–31 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/judges/5/1) Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
 
 [2 ](/kjv/judges/5/2) Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/judges/5/3) 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.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/judges/5/4) 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.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/judges/5/5) The mountains melted from before the LORD, *even* that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.*
 
 [6 ](/kjv/judges/5/6) In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.**
 
 [7 ](/kjv/judges/5/7) *The inhabitants of* the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/judges/5/8) They chose new gods; then *was* war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
 
 [9 ](/kjv/judges/5/9) My heart *is* toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/judges/5/10) Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/judges/5/11) *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.*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/judges/5/12) Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/judges/5/13) Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/judges/5/14) 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.*
 
 [15 ](/kjv/judges/5/15) 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.***
 
 [16 ](/kjv/judges/5/16) Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben *there were* great searchings of heart.*
 
 [17 ](/kjv/judges/5/17) Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.**
 
 [18 ](/kjv/judges/5/18) Zebulun and Naphtali *were* a people *that* jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/judges/5/19) The kings came *and* fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/judges/5/20) They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.*
 
 [21 ](/kjv/judges/5/21) The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/judges/5/22) Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.*
 
 [23 ](/kjv/judges/5/23) 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.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/judges/5/24) Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/judges/5/25) He asked water, *and* she gave *him* milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/judges/5/26) 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.*
 
 [27 ](/kjv/judges/5/27) 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.**
 
 [28 ](/kjv/judges/5/28) 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?
 
 [29 ](/kjv/judges/5/29) Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,*
 
 [30 ](/kjv/judges/5/30) 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?*
 
 [31 ](/kjv/judges/5/31) 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.
 
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