16 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds,
To hear the pipings for the flocks?
The divisions of Reuben have great searchings of heart.
17 (A)Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan,
And why did Dan remain [a]on ships?
(B)Asher continued at the seashore,
And stayed by his inlets.
18 (C)Zebulun is a people who jeopardized their lives to the point of death,
Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:17 Or at ease

16 Why did you stay among the sheep pens[a](A)
    to hear the whistling for the flocks?(B)
In the districts of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.
17 Gilead(C) stayed beyond the Jordan.
    And Dan, why did he linger by the ships?
Asher(D) remained on the coast(E)
    and stayed in his coves.
18 The people of Zebulun(F) risked their very lives;
    so did Naphtali(G) on the terraced fields.(H)

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  1. Judges 5:16 Or the campfires; or the saddlebags