Judges 5:22

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Then, stamped hoofs of horses, With the gallopings, gallopings of his mighty steeds.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The horses’ hooves then hammered—the galloping, galloping of his stallions.

Hebrew Names Version
Then did the horse hoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

King James Version
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

Lexham English Bible
"Then the hooves of the horse beat loudly, because of galloping, galloping of his stallions.

English Standard Version
"Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

New Century Version
Then the horses' hoofs beat the ground. Galloping, galloping go Sisera's mighty horses.

New English Translation
The horses' hooves pounded the ground; the stallions galloped madly.

Amplified Bible
"Then the horses' hoofs beat [loudly] Because of the galloping—the galloping of his valiant and powerful steeds.

New American Standard Bible
"Then the horses' hoofs beat From the galloping, the galloping of his mighty stallions.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then were the horsehooues broken with the oft beating together of their mightie men.

Legacy Standard Bible
And on some, who are doubting, have mercy;

Contemporary English Version
Sisera's horses galloped off, their hoofs thundering in retreat.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then the horses' hoofs pounded the ground, their mighty steeds galloping at full speed.

Darby Translation
Then did the horse-hoofs clatter with the coursings, The coursings of their steeds.

Easy-to-Read Version
The horses' hooves hammered the ground. Sisera's mighty horses ran and ran.

George Lamsa Translation
Then the hoofs of his horses fell down, were broken because of the prancing of his mighty ones.

Good News Translation
Then the horses came galloping on, stamping the ground with their hoofs.

Literal Translation
Then did the hooves of horses beat from the galloping, galloping of his mighty stallions.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then made the horse fete a rußshinge together, for the greate violence of their mightie horse men.

American Standard Version
Then did the horsehoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

Bible in Basic English
Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then were the horse hoofes smitten asunder by the meanes of the praunsings that their mightie men made.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then did the horsehoofs stamp by reason of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.

King James Version (1611)
Then were the horse hoofes broken, by the meanes of the pransings, the pransings of their mightie ones.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted

English Revised Version
Then did the horsehoofs stamp by reason of the pransings, the pransings of their strong ones.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the hooves of horses thundered-the mad galloping of his stallions.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The hors howis felden, while the strongeste of enemyes fledden with bire, and felden heedli.

Young's Literal Translation
Then broken were the horse-heels, By pransings -- pransings of its mighty ones.

Update Bible Version
Then the horsehoofs stamped By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then were the horse's hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.

World English Bible
Then did the horse hoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

New King James Version
Then the horses' hooves pounded, The galloping, galloping of his steeds.

New Living Translation
Then the horses' hooves hammered the ground, the galloping, galloping of Sisera's mighty steeds.

New Life Bible
The beating of the feet of horses was loud, because the strong horses went fast.

New Revised Standard
"Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst the stoutest of the enemies fled amain, and fell headlong down.

Revised Standard Version
"Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then the horses' hoofs beat From the dashing, the dashing of his valiant steeds.

Contextual Overview

¹² Awake! awake! Deborah, Awake! awake! utter words of song, - Arise! Barak, and bind fast thy captives, O son of Abinoam! ¹³ Then, came down a remnant to the nobles - a people, - Yahweh, came down with me against the mighty. ¹⁴ Out of Ephraim, came down they whose root was in Amalek, After thee, Benjamin, among thy tribes, - Out of Machir, had come down governors, And, out of Zebulun, such as bear aloft the staff of the marshal; ¹⁵ And, my princes in Issachar, were with Deborah, yea, Issachar, was the support of Barak, Into the vale rushed they forth at his feet. Among the divisions of Reuben, great were the resolves of the heart: ¹⁶ Wherefore abodes thou among the folds? To hear the mocking of the flocks? The divisions of Reuben, had great counsellings of heart. ¹⁷ Gilead, beyond the Jordan, took his rest, but, Dan, wherefore remained he with the ships? Asher, abode by the shore of the seas, and, by his creeks, must needs rest. ¹⁸ Zebulun - a people that scorned their souls unto death; and, Naphtali, - upon the heights of the field. ¹⁹ On came kings, they fought, Then, fought the kings of Canaan, In Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo, - Plunder of silver, they took not away! ²⁰ From heaven, was the battle fought, - The stars in their courses, fought against Sisera. ²¹ The torrent of Kishon, swept them away, the torrent of olden times, the torrent of Kishon! Let my soul march along, with victorious strength!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

horsehoofs: Anciently, horses were not shod; nor are they at the present day in some parts of the East. The flight was so rapid that the hoofs of their horses were splintered and broken by the roughness of the roads; in consequence of which they became lame, and could not carry off their riders. Psalms 20:7, Psalms 33:17, Psalms 147:10, Psalms 147:11, Isaiah 5:28, Jeremiah 47:4, Micah 4:13

prancings: or, tramplings, or, plungings

mighty ones: Or, as Dr. Waterland renders, "mighty horses," or "strong steeds," as Dr. Kennicott, i.e., their war-horses, which gives great energy to the text, and renders it perfectly intelligible.

Reciprocal: Job 39:21 - He paweth Jeremiah 8:16 - at the Jeremiah 47:3 - the noise Nahum 3:2 - noise

Cross-References

Genesis 5:5
So all the days of Adam which he lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, - and he died.

Genesis 5:6
And Seth lived a hundred and five years, - and begat Enosh:

Genesis 5:24
and Enoch walked with God, - and was not for God had taken him.

Genesis 6:9
These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations, - with God, did Noah walk.

Genesis 17:1
And it came to pass that, when Abram was ninety and nine years old, Yahweh appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, I, am GOD Almighty, - Walk, thou before me and become thou blameless:

Genesis 24:40
And he said unto me, - Yahweh, before whom I have walked to and fro, will send his messenger with thee, so shall he prosper thy way, and thou shalt take a wife for my son out of my kindred and out of the house of my father.

Genesis 48:15
Thus blessed he Joseph, and said, - God himself - before whom walked my fathers. Abraham and Isaac, God himself - who hath been my shepherd, since I came into being until this day; -

Exodus 16:4
Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Behold me! ruining down for you bread out of heaven, - and the people shall go out and gather the portion for a day, on its day, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.

Leviticus 26:12
But I will walk to and fro in your midst, And will be unto you a God, And, ye, shall be unto me a people.

Deuteronomy 5:33
In all the way which Yahweh your God hath commanded you, must ye walk, - that ye may live and it be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which ye shall possess.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then were the horse hoofs broken by means of the pransings,.... Either through the force of the waters of the river, where they pranced and plunged, and could have no standing; or through the swift haste they made to run away, striking the earth so quick, and with such force and vehemence, that their hoofs were broken thereby, especially on stony ground, and so their speed retarded:

the pransings of the mighty ones; either their riders, princes, and great personages, who made them prance, leap, and run with great speed and force; or horses strong and mighty, being such as were selected for this purpose, and trained to war.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Probably an allusion to the frantic efforts of the chariot-horses to disengage themselves from the morass (Judges 4:15 note).

Mighty ones - Applied to bulls Psalms 22:12 and horses Jeremiah 8:16; Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 50:11; elsewhere, as probably here, to men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 5:22. Then were the horsehoofs broken — In very ancient times horses were not shod; nor are they to the present day in several parts of the East. Sisera had iron chariots when his hosts were routed; the horses that drew these, being strongly urged on by those who drove them, had their hoofs broken by the roughness of the roads; in consequence of which they became lame, and could not carry off their riders. This is marked as one cause of their disaster.