Judges 5:22

The NET Bible®

The horses' hooves pounded the ground; the stallions galloped madly.

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.

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 Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Capture your prisoners of war, son of Abinoam! ¹³ Then the survivors came down to the mighty ones; the Lord 's people came down to me as warriors. ¹⁴ They came from Ephraim, who uprooted Amalek, they follow after you, Benjamin, with your soldiers. From Makir leaders came down, from Zebulun came the ones who march carrying an officer's staff. ¹⁵ Issachar's leaders were with Deborah, the men of Issachar supported Barak; into the valley they were sent under Barak's command. Among the clans of Reuben there was intense heart searching. ¹⁶ Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, listening to the shepherds playing their pipes for their flocks? As for the clans of Reuben—there was intense searching of heart. ¹⁷ Gilead stayed put beyond the Jordan River. As for Dan—why did he seek temporary employment in the shipyards? Asher remained on the seacoast, he stayed by his harbors. ¹⁸ The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; Naphtali charged on to the battlefields. ¹⁹ Kings came, they fought; the kings of Canaan fought, at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no silver as plunder. ²⁰ From the sky the stars fought, from their paths in the heavens they fought against Sisera. ²¹ The Kishon River carried them off; the river confronted them—the Kishon River. Step on the necks of the strong!

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
The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:6
When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.

Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

Genesis 24:40
He answered, ‘The Lord , before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father's family.

Genesis 48:15
Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May 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, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?

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

Deuteronomy 5:33
Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to 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.