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Judges 5:8

WEB

8They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

KJV

8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

BSB

8When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

FBV

8When the people chose new gods,[+] then war arrived at their gates. Not even a shield or spear could be found among forty thousand warriors in Israel.


Extra References

Deuteronomy 32:16-17

16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations. 17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.


Judges 2:12

12They abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.


Judges 2:17

17Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the LORD’s commandments. They didn’t do so.


Judges 4:3

3The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.


1 Samuel 13:19-22

19Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”; 20but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle. 21The price was one payim[+] to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads. 22So it came to pass in the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.