Then the horses’ hooves hammered the ground, the galloping, galloping of Sisera’s mighty steeds.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.
- KJV Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- BSB Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.
- NKJV Then the horses’ hooves pounded, The galloping, galloping of his steeds.
- NASB “Then the horses’ hoofs beat From the galloping, the galloping of his mighty stallions.
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Quick answer
The horses' hooves pound as the enemy flees in panicked retreat.
Overview
The galloping of the warhorses depicts the chaotic flight of Sisera's broken army. The mighty chariot force is reduced to a stampede of escape. The image captures the totality of the rout God brought upon Israel's oppressor.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
- Mic 4:13Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
- Ps 33:17A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.
- Ps 147:10–11He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
- Isa 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
- Jer 47:4because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
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