Judges 5:22

Then were the horse hoofs broken by means of the pransings,.... Either through the force of the waters of the river, where they pranced and plunged, and could have no standing; or through the swift…

Probably an allusion to the frantic efforts of the chariot-horses to disengage themselves from the morass (Jdg 4:15 note). Mighty ones - Applied to bulls Psa 22:12 and horses Jer 8:16; Jer 47:3; Jer…

Here, I. Deborah stirs up herself and Barak to celebrate this victory in the most solemn manner, to the glory of God and the honour of Israel, for the encouragement of their friends and the greater…

did … stamp or hammered(i.e. the earth); the same verb as in Jdg 5:5. In the next line the Hebrew words imitate the gallop of horses in precipitate flight. Cf. Nah 3:2. Their strong onesare the…