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Psa. 68:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord gave the word: great was the φcompany of those that published it.

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Psa. 40:3• ³And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah. (Psa. 40:3)

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Ex. 14:15• ¹⁵And Jehovah said to Moses, Why dost thou cry unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. (Ex. 14:15)

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Ex. 17:9‑16• ⁹And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.
¹⁰And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
¹¹And it came to pass when Moses raised his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
¹²And Moses' hands were heavy; then they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on this side, and one on that side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
¹³And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
¹⁴And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.
¹⁵And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi.
¹⁶And he said, For the hand is on the throne of Jah; Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation! (Ex. 17:9‑16)

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Judg. 4:6‑24• ⁶And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and said to him, Hath not Jehovah the God of Israel commanded? Go and draw towards mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun,
⁷and I will draw unto thee, to the torrent Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, and his chariots and his multitude, and I will give him into thy hand.
⁸And Barak said to her, If thou goest with me, then I will go, but if thou goest not with me, I will not go.
⁹And she said, I will by all means go with thee, only that it will not be to thine honour upon the way which thou goest, for Jehovah will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
¹⁰And Barak called together Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and there went up at his feet ten thousand men; and Deborah went up with him.
¹¹(Now Heber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites, from the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak of Zaannaim, which is by Kedesh.)
¹²And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to mount Tabor.
¹³Then Sisera gathered together all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth-Goim to the torrent Kishon.
¹⁴And Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Jehovah hath given Sisera into thy hand! Is not Jehovah gone out before thee? And Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
¹⁵And Jehovah discomfited Sisera, and all the chariots, and all the army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera got down from his chariot, and fled on foot.
¹⁶And Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth-Goim; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not one was left.
¹⁷And Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
¹⁸And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in to her, into the tent, and she covered him with the quilt.
¹⁹And he said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened the flask of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
²⁰And he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be if any one come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
²¹And Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took the hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it penetrated into the ground; for he had fallen into a deep sleep and was faint; and he died.
²²And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael went out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And he went into her tent, and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the pin was in his temples.
²³So God subdued on that day Jabin king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
²⁴And the hand of the children of Israel ever advanced, and prevailed against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had cut off Jabin king of Canaan. (Judg. 4:6‑24)

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Eph. 4:11• ¹¹and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers, (Eph. 4:11)

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Heb. army.

Psa. 68:25• ²⁵The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets. (Psa. 68:25)

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Ex. 15:20• ²⁰And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances. (Ex. 15:20)

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Judg. 5:1‑31• ¹Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying,
²For that leaders led in Israel, For that the people willingly offered themselves, Bless Jehovah!
³Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, even I, will sing to Jehovah; I will hymn to Jehovah the God of Israel.
⁴Jehovah, when thou wentest forth from Seir, When thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
⁵The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel.
⁶In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, The roads were unused, and the travellers on highways went by crooked paths.
⁷The villages ceased in Israel, Ceased until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
⁸They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
⁹My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Jehovah!
¹⁰Ye that ride on white she-asses, ye that sit on carpets, and ye that walk by the way, consider.
¹¹Because of the voice of those who divide the spoil in the midst of the places of drawing water; There they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, His righteous acts toward his villages in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.
¹²Awake, awake, Deborah! awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead captive thy captives, thou son of Abinoam!
¹³Then come down, thou, the remnant of nobles, as his people; Jehovah! come down with me in the midst of the mighty ones.
¹⁴Out of Ephraim came those whose root was in Amalek; After thee was Benjamin among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handled the staff of the ruler.
¹⁵And the princes in Issachar were with Deborah; And Issachar, like Barak; They were sent into the valley at his feet. In the divisions of Reuben there were great resolves of heart!
¹⁶Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the bleating of the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben there were great deliberations of heart!
¹⁷Gilead abode beyond Jordan; And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat on the sea-shore, And abode in his creeks.
¹⁸Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives unto death, Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
¹⁹Kings came,--they fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan; At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; They took no spoil of silver.
²⁰From heaven was the fight; The stars from their courses fought with Sisera.
²¹The torrent of Kishon swept them away, That ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. My soul, thou hast trodden down strength!
²²Then did the horse-hoofs clatter with the coursings, The coursings of their steeds.
²³Curse Meroz, saith the Angel of Jehovah; Curse, curse the inhabitants thereof; For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty.
²⁴Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, Blessed above women in the tent!
²⁵He asked water, she gave milk; In the nobles' bowl she brought forth cream.
²⁶She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And she smote Sisera, she struck through his head, Shattered and pierced through his temples.
²⁷Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: Between her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell, overcome.
²⁸Them other of Sisera looketh out at the window, And crieth through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the trampings of his chariots?
²⁹The wise amongst her ladies answer her, Yea, she returneth answer to herself,
³⁰Have they not found, divided the booty, A damsel, two damsels, to each? A booty of dyed stuffs for Sisera, A booty of dyed stuffs of embroidery, Dyed stuff of double embroidery for the neck of a spoiler?
³¹So let all thine enemies perish, Jehovah! But let them that love him be as the rising of the sun in its might. And the land had rest forty years. (Judg. 5:1‑31)

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Rev. 19:13• ¹³and he is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God. (Rev. 19:13)

• Giving the word of direction, He led them to victory over all their enemies; so that kings fled, and spoil was secured, in which all had a share (vv. 11-12). (“Psalms 68” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The Lord gives the wordi: great the host of the publishersk.

JND Translation Notes

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Omer. see Note, Ps. 119.11.

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i.e. women publishing victory, like Miriam. the word is feminine, see Ex. 15.20; 1 Sam. 18.6.