For a similar reason the translation given above, "take
captive thy captors," is the more natural and correct.
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the prose reproduction we feel that the rich colour of the events
as they occurred is bleached out of them by the one universal first
cause, Jehovah. The presence and energy of Jehovah are not wanting
in the song; they are felt in the enthusiasm which fills the Hebrew
warriors, and in the terror and panic which confound the prancing
vigour of the foe. But in the prose narrative, the Divine action
is stripped of all mystery, and mechanic prophecy finds no
difficulty in showing distinctly and with sober accuracy what the
part of the Deity in the history has been. But the more special
the intervention of Deity, the further is it from us; the more
precise the statements about it, the less do we feel it to be there.
There is another instance in the Book of Judges of the occurrence
of the same historical material in two different forms; it is the
story of Gideon of the Manassite house of Abiezer. Studer saw
that there is a break between viii.
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