Judges 5:22

English Standard Version

"Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his 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.

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.

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, break out in a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam. ¹³ Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the Lord marched down for me against the mighty. ¹⁴ From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant's staff; ¹⁵ the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. ¹⁶ Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. ¹⁷ Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings. ¹⁸ Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field. ¹⁹ "The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver. ²⁰ From heaven the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera. ²¹ The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!

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
Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

Genesis 5:6
When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.

Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

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

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

Genesis 24:40
But he said to me, ‘The Lord , before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.

Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

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

Deuteronomy 5:33
You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you 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.