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Polyglot Bible: Judges: Judges 5

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This is a scholarly textual presentation of Judges 5 — the "Song of Deborah" — displayed in parallel across three ancient versions: the Hebrew text rendered through the KJV with embedded Strong's concordance numbers, and two distinct Septuagint (LXX) Greek recensions. The song is an archaic victory poem, widely regarded as one of the oldest texts in the Hebrew Bible, celebrating Israel's military triumph over the Canaanite general Sisera under the prophetess-judge Deborah and the commander Barak. Its content moves through theophanic imagery (God marching from Seir, mountains trembling, stars fighting), a roll call of tribes praising those who fought and shaming those who abstained (Reuben, Dan, Asher), and culminates in the graphic killing of Sisera by Jael with a tent peg, contrasted with the poignant scene of Sisera's mother confidently awaiting spoils that will never come. The distinctive scholarly value of this presentation lies in its side-by-side comparison of the Hebrew and the two LXX traditions, which show meaningful divergences — for example in verse 7 ("inhabitants of villages" vs. "mighty men" vs. "phrazōn"), verse 13, and verse 22 — making it a resource for textual criticism rather than devotional reading. Someone interested in ancient Near Eastern poetry, Hebrew Bible textual transmission, or the translation history between Masoretic and Greek traditions would find this directly useful.

Polyglot Bible: Judges: Judges 5

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