Judges 5:6

In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, who proved himself a hero in a local attack on the Philistines, Judges 3:31, in the days of Jael, even though this heroic woman was then already living, yet Israel as a whole was in a miserable plight, the highways were unoccupied, the people of Israel had ceased to use them for fear of their enemies, and the travelers walked through byways, made use of hidden paths, often with crooked and zigzag courses, in order to escape the vigilance of their enemies.