Cross references

Judges 5:8

When they chose new gods,

then war came to their gates.

Not a shield or spear was found

among forty thousand in Israel.

Judges 5:8 BSB

Judges 5:8 has 5 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 32:16–17 (4 votes) and Judges 2:12 (3 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Exodus 15 to Hebrews 11.

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Which verses does Judges 5:8 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

  2. Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

  3. Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

  4. Judges 4:32 votes

    Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

  5. And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.” Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles. …

Which verses point to Judges 5:8?

The 10 strongest of 26.