Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 5:1 | Then sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying, |
| 5:2 | Praise ye the Lord, for the auenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselues. |
| 5:3 | Heare, O ye kings, giue eare, O ye Princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord, I wil sing praise to the Lord God of Israel. |
| 5:4 | Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. |
| 5:5 | The mountaines melted from before the Lord, euen that Sinai, from before the Lord God of Israel. |
| 5:6 | In the dayes of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the dayes of Iael, the high wayes were vnoccupied, and the traueilers walked thorow by-wayes. |
| 5:7 | The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, vntill that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. |
| 5:8 | They chose new gods; then was warre in the gates: was there a shield or speare seene among fourtie thousand in Israel? |
| 5:9 | My heart is toward the gouernours of Israel, that offered themselues willingly among the people: Blesse ye the Lord. |
| 5:10 | Speake yee that ride on white asses, yee that sit in Iudgement, and walke by the way. |
| 5:11 | They that are deliuered from the noise of Archers in the places of drawing water; there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, euen the righteous acts towards the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord goe downe to the gates. |
| 5:12 | Awake, awake Deborah: awake, awake, vtter a song: arise Barak, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam. |
| 5:13 | Then hee made him that remaineth, haue dominion ouer the Nobles among the people: the Lord made me haue dominion ouer the mightie. |
| 5:14 | Out of Ephraim was there a roote of them against Amalek, after thee Beniamin, among thy people: Out of Machir came downe gouernours, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. |
| 5:15 | And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah: euen Issachar, and also Barak, he was sent on foot into the valley: for the diuisions of Reuben, there were great thoughts of heart. |
| 5:16 | Why abodest thou among the sheepefolds, to heare the bleatings of the flocks? for the diuisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. |
| 5:17 | Gilead abode beyond Iordan: and why did Dan remaine in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. |
| 5:18 | Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that ieoparded their liues vnto the death, in the high places of the field. |
| 5:19 | The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they tooke no gaine of money. |
| 5:20 | They fought from heauen, the starres in their courses fought against Sisera. |
| 5:21 | The riuer of Kishon swept them away, that ancient riuer, the riuer Kishon: O my soule, thou hast troden downe strength. |
| 5:22 | Then were the horse hoofes broken, by the meanes of the pransings, the pransings of their mightie ones. |
| 5:23 | Curse ye Meroz (said the Angel of the Lord ) curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof: because they came not to the helpe of the Lord, to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty. |
| 5:24 | Blessed aboue women shal Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be aboue women in the tent. |
| 5:25 | He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought foorth butter in a lordly dish. |
| 5:26 | Shee put her hand to the naile, and her right hand to the workemens hammer: and with the hammer shee smote Sisera, shee smote off his head, when she had pearsed & striken through his temples. |
| 5:27 | At her feete he bowed, he fell, he lay downe: at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fel down dead. |
| 5:28 | The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattesse, Why is his charet so long in comming? Why tarie the wheeles of his charets? |
| 5:29 | Her wise ladies answered her, yea she returned answere to her selfe, |
| 5:30 | Haue they not sped? haue they not diuided the pray to euery man a damosell or two? To Sisera a pray of diuers colours, a pray of diuers colours, of needle worke, of diuers colours of needle worke on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoile? |
| 5:31 | So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that loue him, be as the Sunne when he goeth foorth in his might. And the land had rest fourtie yeeres. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.