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Judges Chapter 5 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Judges 5:2

For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves willingly, Bless ye Jehovah.
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BBE Judges 5:2

Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.
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DARBY Judges 5:2

"That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD!
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KJV Judges 5:2

Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
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WBT Judges 5:2

Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
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WEB Judges 5:2

For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves willingly, Bless you Yahweh.
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YLT Judges 5:2

`For freeing freemen in Israel, For a people willingly offering themselves Bless ye Jehovah.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Her first feeling was one of patriotic joy that her countrymen had been roused to the venture of war, and of gratitude to God that it was so. "For the bold leading of the leaders of Israel, for the willing following of the people, praise ye the Lord.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) For the avenging of Israel.--The Hebrew word peraoth cannot have this meaning, though it is found in the Syriac and implied by the Chaldee. The word only occurs in Deuteronomy 32:42, and there, as here, implies the notion of leading; so that the LXX. are doubtless right in rendering it, "In the leading of the leaders of Israel." God is praised because both leaders and people (Judges 5:9; Judges 5:13) did their duty. Peraoth is derived from perang, "hair"; and whether the notion which it involves is that of comati, "nobles, who wear long hair" (comp. Homer's "long-haired Greeks," and Tennyson's "his beard a yard before him, and his hair a yard behind "), or "hairy champions," or the hair of warriors streaming behind them as they rode to battle ("His beard and hoary hair streamed like a meteor to the troubled air": Gray), leadership seems to be the notion involved.When the people willingly offered themselves.--Comp. Psalm 110:3 : "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power."