Richter 5:30

Schlachter Bibel

„Sollten sie nicht Beute finden und verteilen? Ein oder zwei Weiber für jeden Mann? Beute von bunten Kleidern für Sisera? Beute von bunt gewirkten Kleidern, doppelt gewirktes buntes Zeug für die Hälse der Geraubten?"

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Finden sie nicht, teilen sie nicht Beute? Ein M�dchen, zwei M�dchen auf den Kopf eines Mannes? Beute an bunten Gew�ndern f�r Sisera, Beute an buntgewirkten Gew�ndern; zwei buntgewirkte Gew�nder f�r den Hals der Gefangenen. -

Lutherbible (1912)
Sollen sie denn nicht finden und austeilen den Raub, einem jeglichen Mann eine Dirne oder zwei zur Ausbeute und Sisera bunte gestickte Kleider zur Ausbeute, gestickte bunte Kleider um dem Hals zur Ausbeute?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Have they not sped: Exodus 15:9, Job 20:5

every man: Heb. the head of a man

of divers: Genesis 37:3, 2 Samuel 13:18, Psalms 45:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 27:16 - needlework Judges 5:19 - they took Judges 15:14 - the Philistines 2 Samuel 1:24 - General 1 Kings 2:9 - hold him 2 Kings 3:23 - now therefore Psalms 124:6 - who hath not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Have they not sped?.... Or "found" u the enemy, Barak and his army, or the spoil of them? no doubt they have:

have they not divided the prey? doubtless they have, which being large, and the captives many, has taken up much of their time to look over, and make an equal and proper division of, and that most certainly is the cause of the delay:

to every man a damsel or two? or "a womb or two w", using both unchaste and contemptuous language x, and pleasing themselves with the virgins of Israel being abused by the common soldiers, which was too frequently the case with the Heathens at gaining a victory:

to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides; suits of clothes of different colours, such as were the works of the women of Sidon y, and those curiously interwoven or wrought with a needle, and that on both sides of the silk or material of which they were made; and so such as were of great worth and esteem, and such it was expected, and with confidence and assurance of it, Sisera would bring with him, and make presents of to his mother and her ladies, or which he would have for his own wear and use, or both:

meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? the general of the army, and the chief men to whom the spoil was brought, and then divided suitably to the rank and quality of every soldier. Pliny z says, the Phrygians first invented the art of needlework; hence the garments wrought, and those that made them, were called after their name; but it is certain it was known by the ancient Hebrews and Canaanites, see

Exodus 26:36.

u הלא ימצאו "nonne invenient", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Vatablus w רחם רחמתים "vulvam vulvas duas", Piscator. x Vid. R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 59. 1. y Julian. Opera, par. 1. crat. 2. p. 94. Vid. Homer. Iliad. 6. ver. 289, 290. z Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 48.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render the latter part of the verse “a booty of dyed garments for Sisera, a booty of dyed garments and of party-colored cloth, a dyed garment and two party-colored clothes for the necks of the booty,” the spoil or booty being either captive damsels, or captive cattle on whose necks these clothes are to be placed (either as ornament or as a burden; compare Judges 8:21, Judges 8:26). But possibly “the necks of the booty” may mean the backs or shoulders (of men or beasts) laden with booty.