Judices 5:6

Nova Vulgata

In diebus Samgar filii Anath, in diebus Iahel quieverunt semitae; et, qui ingrediebantur per eas, ambulaverunt per calles devios.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
per quadraginta annos itineris latissimæ solitudinis incircumcisus fuit : donec consumeretur qui non audierant vocem Domini, et quibus ante juraverat ut non ostenderet eis terram lacte et melle manantem.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
In diebus Samgar filii Anath,
in diebus Jahel quieverunt semitæ:
et qui ingrediebantur per eas,
ambulaverunt per calles devios.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shamgar: Judges 3:31

Jael: Judges 4:17, Judges 4:18

the highways: Leviticus 26:22, 2 Chronicles 15:5, Isaiah 33:8, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 4:18, Micah 3:12

travellers: Heb. walkers of paths

byways: Heb. crooked ways, Psalms 125:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:19 - General Jeremiah 6:25 - Go not Ezekiel 35:7 - passeth Zechariah 8:10 - neither Matthew 8:28 - so

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath,.... Of whom see Judges 3:31; who succeeded Ehud as a judge, but lived not long, and did not much; at least wrought not a perfect deliverance of the children of Israel; but during his time till now, quite through the twenty years of Jabin's oppression, things were as they are after described:

in the days of Jael; the wife of Heber the Kenite, spoken of in the preceding chapter, Judges 4:17, who appears to be a woman of masculine spirit, and endeavoured to do what good she could to Israel, though not a judge among them, as Jarchi suggests; and who before this affair of Sisera had signalized herself by some deeds of hers in favour of Israel, and against their enemies; yet far from putting a stop to the outrages committed; for in the times of both these persons,

the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways; the public roads were so infested with thieves and robbers, who stopped all they met with, and robbed them of what they had, that travellers and merchants with their carriages were obliged either to quit their employments, and not travel at all; or, if they did, were obliged to go in private roads, and roundabout ways, to keep clear of those rapparees the highways and public roads abounded with.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Words dcscriptive of a state of weakness and fear, so that Israel could not frequent the highways. It is a graphic description of a country occupied by an enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 5:6. The highways were unoccupied — The land was full of anarchy and confusion, being everywhere infested with banditti. No public road was safe; and in going from place to place, the people were obliged to use unfrequented paths.