Judges 5:11
the voices of the singers at the watering places. There they shall recount the righteous acts of the Lord, the righteous deeds of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the Lord went down to the gates:
Note Or archers or those who divide the sheep
Note Or warriors
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.
Note righteous…: Heb. righteousnesses
Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the Lord’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then the Lord’s people went down to the gates.
Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, Even the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the noise
- Lamentations 5:4, 9
- 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; Exodus 2:17–19; Isaiah 12:3
- righteous acts
- Heb. righteousnesses.
- 1 Samuel 12:7; Psalm 145:7; Micah 6:5
- villages
- Judges 5:7
- go down
- Deuteronomy 22:24; Job 29:7; Isaiah 28:6; Jeremiah 7:2