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Judges 5:29

Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Country;   Patriotism;   Sisera;   Thompson Chain Reference - Deborah;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Barak;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hymn;   Judges, Book of;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Barak;   Deborah;   Ephraim;   Hittites;   Israel;   Jashar, Book of;   Levi;   Manasseh;   Naphtali;   Poetry;   Prince;   Simeon;   Sisera;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Wisdom;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sisera ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Barak;   Pithom;   Sisera;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Baal;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Caesarea Philippi;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lady;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deborah, the Song of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Her wisest princesses answer her;she even answers herself:
Hebrew Names Version
Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
King James Version
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
Lexham English Bible
The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself:
English Standard Version
Her wisest princesses answer, indeed, she answers herself,
New Century Version
The wisest of her servant ladies answer her, and Sisera's mother says to herself,
New English Translation
The wisest of her ladies answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,
Amplified Bible
"Her wise ladies answered her, Indeed, she repeated her words to herself,
New American Standard Bible
"Her wise princesses would answer her, Indeed she repeats her words to herself,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Her wise ladies answered her, Yea. Shee answered her selfe with her owne wordes,
Legacy Standard Bible
Die skranderste van haar vorstinne antwoord haar, ja, sy self antwoord op haar woorde:
Contemporary English Version
She and her wisest women gave the same answer:
Complete Jewish Bible
The wisest of her ladies answer her, and she repeats it to herself,
Darby Translation
The wise amongst her ladies answer [her], Yea, she returneth answer to herself,
Easy-to-Read Version
"Her wisest servant girl answers her. Yes, the servant gives her an answer:
George Lamsa Translation
Her wise ladies answered her, saying,
Good News Translation
Her wisest friends answered her, and she told herself over and over,
Literal Translation
The wise ones of her princesses answered her; yea, she returned her words to herself:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wysest amoge his ladies answered, & sayde vnto her:
American Standard Version
Her wise ladies answered her, Yea, she returned answer to herself,
Bible in Basic English
Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Al the wyse ladyes aunswered her, yea and her owne wordes aunswered her selfe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The wisest of her princesses answer her, yea, she returneth answer to herself:
King James Version (1611)
Her wise ladies answered her, yea she returned answere to her selfe,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Her wise ladies answered her, and she returned answers to herself, saying,
English Revised Version
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
Berean Standard Bible
Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oon wisere than `othere wyues of hym answeride these wordis to the modir of hir hosebonde,
Young's Literal Translation
The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, Yea, she returneth her sayings to herself:
Webster's Bible Translation
Her wise ladies answered her, yes, she returned answer to herself.
World English Bible
Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
New King James Version
Her wisest ladies answered her, Yes, she answered herself,
New Living Translation
"Her wise women answer, and she repeats these words to herself:
New Life Bible
Her wise ladies answered her. But she asked herself again and again,
New Revised Standard
Her wisest ladies make answer, indeed, she answers the question herself:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The wise ladies, her princesses, responded, - Nay! she, returned answer to, herself: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this answer to her mother in law:
Revised Standard Version
Her wisest ladies make answer, nay, she gives answer to herself,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Her wise princesses would answer her, Indeed she repeats her words to herself,

Contextual Overview

24 Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed she shall be above women in the tent. 25 He asked water, [and] she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish. 26 She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples. 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 28 Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots tarry? 29 Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself, 30 Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to every [able-bodied] man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil? 31 So let all your enemies perish, O Yahweh: But let those that love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

answer: Heb. her words, Judges 5:29

Reciprocal: Esther 1:18 - the ladies

Cross-References

Genesis 5:8
and all the days of Seth were 912 years: and he died.
Genesis 5:9
And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.
Genesis 5:11
and all the days of Enosh were 905 years: and he died.
Genesis 5:12
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel:
Genesis 5:17
and all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years: and he died.
Genesis 5:19
and Jared lived after he begot Enoch 800 years, and begot sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:26
and Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech 782 years, and begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were 969 years: and he died.
Genesis 7:23
And every living thing was destroyed that was on the face of the ground, from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
Genesis 9:24
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Her wise ladies answered her,.... Every one in their turn endeavouring to comfort her and make her easy. The Vulgate Latin version is,

"one that was wiser than the rest of his wives;''

but they seem rather to be her maids of honour, or ladies of her acquaintance, who were come to pay her a visit, and share in the pleasing sight they expected to have of Sisera:

yea, she returned answer to herself; before they could well give theirs, she soon recollected herself what might be, and must be, the occasion of this delay; and this, according to the Targum, she made in her wisdom, what her great wisdom quickly suggested to her was certainly the case, and with which she comforted and quieted herself.


 
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