Judges 5:22

Bible in Basic English

Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

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.

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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, stamped hoofs of horses, With the gallopings, gallopings of his mighty 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! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam. ¹³ Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones. ¹⁴ Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod. ¹⁵ Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart. ¹⁶ Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks? ¹⁷ Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets. ¹⁸ It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field. ¹⁹ The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money. ²⁰ The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera. ²¹ The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!

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
And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.

Genesis 5:6
And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh:

Genesis 5:24
And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

Genesis 24:40
And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

Genesis 48:15
And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.

Leviticus 26:12
And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.

Deuteronomy 5:33
Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

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.