Judges 5:10

In this most obscure verse the poet is generally supposed to call upon various classes of Israelites to take their share in celebrating the victory.

Tellof it So LXX, Vulgate The verb means talk(against) Psalms 69:12, or speak(to) Job 12:8, but properly to meditate upon, musePsalms 105:2; Psalms 145:5 etc.; it does not occur in early literature (Genesis 24:63 is textually doubtful). The word is corrupt.

ye that ride on white asses more exactly, as the Arabic shews, tawny, reddish-grey, asses, i.e. choice animals such as would be ridden by persons of dignity; the leading men in ancient Israel used to ride on asses, just as members of the ruling house in Zanzibar, and as the sheikhs in S. Arabia, do at the present day. Cf. Judges 10:4; Judges 12:14 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 19:26.

rich carpets from a word which means garment, raiment(e.g. Judges 3:16), here supposed to refer to the raiment, i.e. saddle-cloths, of the asses. This is highly precarious, and the word, which is irregular though perhaps not impossible in form 1 [34], must be considered corrupt. LXX. cod. A interprets the two lines as referring to a triumphal procession; LXX. cod. B, Targ., Vulgate in judgement, by a false etymology.

[34] Instead of îm, it has the plur. ending în, the normal form in Aramaic; which occurs, however, regularly in the Moabite Stone, and in the O.T. 25 or 26 times (15 in Job) in passages either dialectical or late.