Judges 5:20New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “The stars fought from heaven, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— They fought from heaven, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— From heaven was the fight; The stars from their courses fought with Sisera.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— From heaven, was the battle fought,—The stars in their courses, fought against Sisera.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— From the heavens they fought: The stars from their highways fought with Sisera.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— There was war made against them from heaven: the stars, remaining in their order and courses, fought against Sisara.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— They fought from heauen, euen the starres in their courses fought against Sisera.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— They fought from heauen, the starres in their courses fought against Sisera.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The stars fought from their courses; they fought from heaven against Sisera by the river Kishon.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— The stars from heaven set themselves in array, they set themselves [to fight] with Sisera{gr.Sisara} out of their paths.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisra. |
They fought
3898 {3898} Primeלָחַםlacham{law-kham'}
A primitive root; to feed on; figuratively to consume; by implication to battle (as destruction).
z8738 <8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 1429
from
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
heaven;
8064 {8064} Primeשָׁמַיִםshamayim{shaw-mah'-yim}
The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve).
the stars
3556 {3556} Primeכּוֹכָבkowkab{ko-kawb'}
Probably from the same as H3522 (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively a prince.
in their courses
4546 {4546} Primeמְסִלָּהm@cillah{mes-il-law'}
From H5549; a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase.
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
fought
3898 {3898} Primeלָחַםlacham{law-kham'}
A primitive root; to feed on; figuratively to consume; by implication to battle (as destruction).
z8738 <8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 1429
against
x5973 (5973) Complementעִם`im{eem}
From H6004; adverb or preposition, with (that is, in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English).
Sîsrä´
סִיסרָא.
5516 {5516} PrimeסִיסְרָאCiyc@ra'{see-ser-aw'}
Of uncertain derivation; Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim. |
Judges 5:20
_ _ the stars in their courses fought — A fearful tempest burst upon them and threw them into disorder. |
Judges 5:20
From heaven — Or, they from heaven, or the heavenly host fought, by thunder, and lightning, and hail — stones, possibly mingled with fire. The stars — Raising these storms by their influences, which they do naturally. Courses — Or, from their paths, or stations. As soldiers fight in their ranks and places assigned them, so did these. |
- fought:
Joshua 10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
1 Samuel 7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
Psalms 77:17-18 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. ... The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
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- the stars:
Judges 4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet.
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