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._ The inhabitants of the villages ceased, х_ CHAADªLUW_ (H2308) _ PªRAAZOWN_ (H6520)] - rule; i:e., (concrete for) rulers ceased in Israel. And so the Septuagint renders it: exelipon dunatoi. But the Hebrew word does not necessarily mean that the Shophetim were not in Israel, because they had left the country, but that they no longer exercised their public functions, and through loss of heart let anarchy universally prevail. UNTIL THAT I ... AROSE A MOTHER IN ISRAEL., х_ 'EEM_ (H517) is used here in the same sense as _ 'AAB_ (H1), father, frequently is, for paternal ruler-doing good and providing for the interests of others (cf....

Verse Judges 5:7. _THE VILLAGES CEASED_] The people were obliged to live together in fortified places; or in great numbers, to protect each other against the incursions of bands of spoilers....

Render the word “villages” (here and in Judges 5:11) judgment, rule, or judges, rulers. The sense is “The princes (or magistrates) ceased in Israel,” i. e. there was no one to do justice in the gate, or defend men from their oppressors....

EXPOSITION JUDGES 5:1 THEN SANG DEBORAH, etc. The ode which follows was doubtless the composition of Deborah the prophetess, and was sung by her (as the gender of the Hebrew verb indicates), assisted by Barak, who perhaps sang the antistrophe (cf. Exodus 15:1, Exodus 15:21). It is a song of wonderful beauty and lyric power, somewhat difficult, as all Hebrew poetry is. JUDGES 5:2 Her first feeling was one of patriotic joy that her countrymen had been roused to the venture of war, and of gratitude to God that it was so. "For the bold leading of the leaders of Israel, for the

THE INHABITANTS OF THE VILLAGES CEASED,.... Not only did those Canaanitish robbers go upon the highway, and robbed all they met with, which made travelling difficult and dangerous; but entered into the villages and unwalled towns, and broke into houses and plundered them; so that the inhabitants of them were obliged to quit their dwellings, and go into the fortified cities for security; by which means the villages were left empty, and in time fell to ruin, and ceased: THEY CEASED IN ISRAEL: for they were the villages which belonged to the Israelites that were plundered, and not those that belonged to any of the Canaanites; and these were the unhappy circumstances Israel were under UNTIL THAT I DEBORAH AROSE, THAT I AROSE A MOTHER IN ISRAEL; until it pleased God to raise her up, and endow her in a very wonderful and extraordinary manner with gifts qualifying her to be a nursing mother t...

CHAPTER 5 The Song of Deborah and Barak _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (Judges 5:1)_ 2. The condition of the people and their deliverance (Judges 5:6) 3. The celebration of the victory and the victors (Judges 5:12) 4. The fate of the enemy (Judges 5:23) This is one of the prophetic songs of the Bible. It is full of the fire of passion and enthusiasm, reflecting the character of the woman through whom the deliverance had been wrought. It has been classed with the barbaric outbursts of the battle-hymns and odes of triumph of heathen nations, likened to some wild chant of a victor, whose blood-thirst has been que

JUDGES 5. THE SONG OF DELIVERANCE. The Song of Deborah so called because of the words I, Deborah, arose (Judges 5:7) is a splendid battle-ode, evidently contemporaneous with the events which it celebrates. It breathes the patriotic fervour and religious enthusiasm which inspired the loftiest minds in Israel, and proves that a great faith was already working wonders in the tribes which till lately had been desert nomads. It is a work of genius, and therefore a work of that highest art which is not studied and artificial, but spontaneous and inevitable (Moore, 135). R. H. Hutton calls it the greatest war-song of any age or nation. Unfortunately the text has suffered a good deal, and in some passages we can do no more than guess the sense. Judges 5:1 f. Yahweh is praised for two reasons: because the leaders of

THE INHABITANTS. Why not supply the Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) by the words "the women", considering the objects of Jabin's oppression? see notes on Judges 4:4; Judges 4:17; Judges 5:7; Judges 5:11; Judges 5:24; Judges 5:30. CEASED. ceased [to be]. Same word as "unoccupied" in Judges 5:6. I AROSE. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._...

The recent oppression....

IN THE DAYS OF SHAMGAR— The prophetess in these verses gives us a description of the wretched state of Israel during the time of that captivity, from which she, by the assistance of God, delivered them. It is very easy, says the author of the _Observations,_ (p. 216.) to turn out of the roads in the east, and go to a place by winding about over the lands, when that is thought safer. Dr. Shaw takes notice of this circumstance, observing, that in Barbary they found no hedges, mounds, or inclosures, to retard or molest them. To this Deborah doubtless refers, though the Doctor does not apply his remark to the present passage. Bishop Pococke's account of the manner in which the Arabs, under whose care he was, conducted him to Jerusalem, illustrates this with great liveliness. It was by night, not by the _high road,_ but through the _fields;_ and I observed that he avoided, as much as he could...