Judges 5:8 Cross References - LITV

⁸ They chose new gods; then war was at the gates! Neither a shield nor a spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

¹⁶ With strange gods they moved Him to jealousy; and with idols they provoked Him to anger. ¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons who were not God, to gods whom they did not know, new ones who came lately. Your fathers had not dreaded them.

¹² And they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. And they went after other gods of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and angered Jehovah.

¹⁷ But they also did not listen to their judges, but went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They quickly turned aside out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah. They did not do so.

³ And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron. And he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.

¹⁹ And there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears. ²⁰ And all Israel went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his plowshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his plowshare. ²¹ And the sharpening charge was a pim for the plowshares, and for the mattocks, and for the three pronged forks, and for the axes, and for setting the plowshares. ²² And it happened in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan. But one was found with Saul and with his son Jonathan.