^4:3The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera⁵ had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,⁶ and he cruelly⁷ oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

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Footnotes

5 Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” 45 (1989): 15–23.
7 Heb “with strength.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them twenty years.

NLTNew Living Translation

Sisera, who had 900 iron chariots, ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the Israelites cried to Yahweh, as he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

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