Judges 5:30 — ‘They're busy dividing up the plunder and assigning a girl or two for each man.… — FBV | maBible
Read Judges 5:30 (Free Bible Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Judges 5.30, Judges 5v30, Jg. 5:30. ‘They're busy dividing up the plunder and assigning a girl or two for each man. There'll be colorful clothes for Sisera as plunder; beautifully embroidered colorful cloth…
Other reference formats: Judges 5.30, Judges 5v30, Jg. 5:30.
30 ‘They're busy dividing up the plunder and assigning a girl or two for each man. There'll be colorful clothes for Sisera as plunder; beautifully embroidered colorful clothes as plunder; double-embroidered clothing reaching to the neck as plunder.’
Notes and references
“A girl”: literally, “a womb,” a dismissive term for a woman.
The repetition is again significant: The word “plunder” is used three times—Sisera's mother is imagined thinking about all the wonderful plunder she will receive. However, it is Sisera who has been “plundered” (the word used there often means simply destroyed, but may include looting and plundering…