Judges 5:16

Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, ¹  listening to the shepherds playing their pipes ²  for their flocks? ³  As for the clans of Reuben – there was intense searching of heart.

Nu 32:1-5,24; Jud 5:15; Ps 4:4; Ps 77:6; La 3:40,41; Php 2:21; Php 3:19

¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִשְׁפְּתַיִם (mishpÿtayim) is uncertain. Some understand the word to mean “campfires.”

² tn Or “whistling.”

³ tn Heb “listening to the pipe playing for the flocks.”