King James Version (KJV)
Judges 5:9
“My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.”
Verse in context — Judges 5
[The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
[They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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