Judges 5:8 Cross References - Rotherham

⁸ They chose gods that were new, Then,––war at the gates! Was there, a shield, to be seen? or a spear? among forty thousand in Israel?

¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with foreign [gods], ––With abominations, angered they him: ¹⁷ They sacrificed to mischievous demons, to a No–GOD, Gods whom they knew not,––New ones lately come in, Your fathers never shuddered at them!

¹² and forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them,––and angered Yahweh.

¹⁷ yet, even unto their judges, did thy not hearken, for they went unchastely astray after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them,––they turned aside speedily out of the way wherein their fathers who hearkened unto the commandments of Yahweh, walked, they did not so.

³ And the sons of Israel made outcry unto Yahweh,––for he had, nine hundred chariots of iron, and, he, oppressed the sons of Israel heavily, twenty years.

¹⁹ Now, a smith, could not be found, throughout all the land of Israel––for the Philistines had said, Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear. ²⁰ So all Israel went down to the Philistines,––to sharpen every man his share, and his mattock, and his axe, and his sickle. ²¹ Howbeit they had a file for the sickles, and the mattocks, and the three–pronged forks, and the axes,––and for setting the goads. ²² Thus would it come to pass, in the day of battle, that there was found––neither sword nor spear, in the hand of any of the people, that were with Saul and Jonathan, but such were found belonging to Saul and to Jonathan his son.