Shamgar: Judges 3:31
Jael: Judges 4:17-18
the highways: Leviticus 26:22; 2 Chronicles 15:5; Isaiah 33:8; Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 4:18; Micah 3:12
travellers: Heb. walkers of paths
byways: Heb. crooked ways, Psalms 125:5
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Judges 5:6
Judges 5:6
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