Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Highways » By-paths more secure in times of danger
In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
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Jael » Wife of heber, and the one who killed sisera
Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!
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In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
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But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite. And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him. Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again. read more.
And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No. Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end. Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.
And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No. Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end. Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.
Shamgar » deliverer » Judge
And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.
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In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
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Travelers » For security often left the highways
In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
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Travellers » Travellers
Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.
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In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
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O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?
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