Richter 5:7

Schlachter Bibel

Es mangelten Führer in Israel, sie mangelten, bis ich, Debora, aufstand, bis ich aufstand, eine Mutter in Israel.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Es feierten die Landst�dte in Israel, sie feierten, bis ich, Debora, aufstand, bis ich aufstand, eine Mutter in Israel.

Lutherbible (1912)
Es gebrach, an Regiment gebrach's in Israel, bis daß ich, Debora, aufkam, bis ich aufkam, eine Mutter in Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the villages: Esther 9:19

a mother: Judges 4:4-6, 2 Samuel 20:19, Isaiah 49:23, Romans 16:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:19 - General Judges 5:3 - even I Judges 5:11 - villages Jeremiah 6:25 - Go not Ezekiel 35:7 - passeth Zechariah 8:10 - neither

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The inhabitants of the villages ceased,.... Not only did those Canaanitish robbers go upon the highway, and robbed all they met with, which made travelling difficult and dangerous; but entered into the villages and unwalled towns, and broke into houses and plundered them; so that the inhabitants of them were obliged to quit their dwellings, and go into the fortified cities for security; by which means the villages were left empty, and in time fell to ruin, and ceased:

they ceased in Israel: for they were the villages which belonged to the Israelites that were plundered, and not those that belonged to any of the Canaanites; and these were the unhappy circumstances Israel were under

until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel; until it pleased God to raise her up, and endow her in a very wonderful and extraordinary manner with gifts qualifying her to be a nursing mother to Israel, to teach and instruct them in the mind and will of God, to administer judgement and justice to them, to protect and defend them, and in all which she discovered a maternal affection for them; and as a good judge and ruler of a people may be called the father of them, so she, being a woman, is with propriety called a mother in Israel, having an affectionate concern for them as her children: now, till she arose, there was no perfect salvation and deliverance wrought for them, since the death of Ehud, even throughout the days of Shamgar and Jael; which is observed to excite praise and thankfulness on the present occasion, which hereby became the more illustrious.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render the word “villages” (here and in Judges 5:11) judgment, rule, or judges, rulers. The sense is “The princes (or magistrates) ceased in Israel,” i. e. there was no one to do justice in the gate, or defend men from their oppressors.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 5:7. The villages ceased — The people were obliged to live together in fortified places; or in great numbers, to protect each other against the incursions of bands of spoilers.