Judges Chapter 5 verse 21 Holy Bible
The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.
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The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!
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The torrent Kishon swept them away, the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!
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The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
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The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
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The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
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The brook Kishon swept them away, The brook most ancient -- the brook Kishon. Thou dost tread down strength, O my soul!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - Ancient. The word so rendered is only found here. The brook of ancient days, or things, probably means the brook celebrated from of old by the warlike deeds done on its banks.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) The river of Kishon.--Judges 4:7; Psalm 83:9. Either from this massacre, or that of the Baal priests of Elijah, the Kishon is now called the Nahr Mukatta, or "river of slaughter" (1Kings 18:40).That ancient river.--The Vulgate renders this, "the torrent Kedumim," and the LXX. (Cod. Vat.), "the river of the ancients" (comp. Deuteronomy 33:15). The Chaldee paraphrases it, "the torrent on whose banks illustrious deeds have been done from the ancient times of Israel." As the Plain of Jezreel has been in all ages the battle-field of Israel, the Kishon must always have played an important part in these struggles, as when the Turks were drowned in its swollen waves on April 16th, 1799. We know, however, of no ancient fame of Kishon before these events; and some render it. "the torrent of meeting armies," or "of slaughters" (Ewald), deriving Kedumim from an Arabic root; or "the torrent of succours," connecting the word with Kiddeem (see Psalm 79:8, &c., Heb.). Aquila renders it by "the torrent of siroccos" (Kaus?n?n); and Symmachus, "the torrent of goats" (wild waves, egers, and bores). . . .
