Hakim-hakim 5:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dari langit berperang bintang-bintang, dari peredarannya mereka memerangi Sisera.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dari langit berperang bintang-bintang, dari peredarannya mereka memerangi Sisera.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dari langit juga dilakukannya perang, dan segala bintang dari cakrawalapun memerangi Sisera.

Contextual Overview

¹² Up Debora vp, get thee vp, and sing a song: Arise Barac, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam. ¹³ Then shall they that remayne, haue dominion of the proudest of the people: The Lord hath geuen me dominion ouer the mightie. ¹⁴ Out of Ephraim was there a roote of them agaynst Amelek, and after thee Beniamin among thy people: Out of Machir came rulers, and out of Zabulon they that handell the penne of the writer. ¹⁵ And of Isachar there were princes with Debora, and Isachar, and also Barak, he was sent on foote into the valley: for the diuisions of Ruben [were] great thoughtes of heart. ¹⁶ Why abodest thou among the sheepe foldes, to heare the bleatinges of the flockes? for the diuisions of Ruben, were great thoughtes of heart. ¹⁷ Gilead also abode beyonde Iordane: and why doth Dan remayne in shyppes? Aser cotinued on the sea shore, and taried in his decayed places. ¹⁸ [But] the people of Zabulon haue ieoparde their lyues euen vnto the death, lyke as dyd Nephthalim in the hye places of the fielde. ¹⁹ The kynges came and fought, then fought ye kynges of Chanaan in Thanach by the waters of Megiddo, and wan no money. ²⁰ They fought from heauen, euen the starres in their courses fought agaynst Sisara. ²¹ The ryuer of Kison swept them away, that auncient ryuer the ryuer Kison: O my soule, thou hast marched valiauntly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fought: Joshua 10:11, 1 Samuel 7:10, Psalms 77:17, Psalms 77:18

the stars: Judges 4:15

courses: Heb. paths

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:14 - the Lord Exodus 14:27 - Lord 2 Samuel 18:8 - General 2 Samuel 22:14 - thundered Psalms 66:3 - How terrible Psalms 76:8 - didst Psalms 119:91 - all are Jeremiah 46:15 - thy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They fought from heaven,.... Either the angels of heaven, afterwards called stars; or the heavens, the elements, fought for Israel, and against Sisera; a violent storm of rain and hail falling at this time, which discomfited Sisera's army; :-, or this victory was obtained in such a manner as plainly showed it was not of man, but of God from heaven; so the Targum,

"from heaven war was made with them;''

with the kings before mentioned; God fought against them, and no wonder they were conquered:

the stars in their courses fought against Sisera it seems as if it was in the night that this battle was fought, at least that the pursuit lasted till night, when the stars by their brightness and clear shining favoured the Israelites, and were greatly to the disadvantage of the Canaanites; unless it can be thought, as is by some, that the stars had an influence to cause a tempest of rain, hail, thunder, and lightnings, by which the army of Sisera was discomfited in the daytime, as before observed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God fought on the side of Israel, and gave them the victory. Josephus relates that, just as the battle began, a violent tempest came on with a great downfall of rain; and a hailstorm, which, driving full in the faces of the Canaanites, so blinded and benumbed them with cold, that they could neither use their bows with effect nor even hold their swords.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 5:20. They fought from heaven — The angels of God came to the assistance of Israel: and the stars in their orbits fought against Sisera; probably some thunder storm, or great inundation from the river Kishon, took place at that time, which in poetic language was attributed to the stars. So our poet sung relative to the storms which dispersed the Spanish armada in 1588: -

"Both winds and waves at once conspire

To aid old England-frustrate Spain's desire."

Perhaps it means no more than this: the time which was measured and ruled by the heavenly bodies seemed only to exist for the destruction of the Canaanites. There may be also a reference to the sun and moon standing still in the days of Joshua.