Judges 5:7 meaning and explanation

Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

Judges 5:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Deborah speaks here in the victory song she and Barak sang after God defeated Sisera (Judges 4). She describes the crisis before the battle: rural life had collapsed, villages were abandoned or defenceless, and travel was unsafe.

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