Judges 5:22

"Then did the horsehoofs stamp

By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah, Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof,

Because they came not to the help of Jehovah,

To the help of Jehovah against the mighty."

"Then did the horsehoofs stamp" (Judges 5:22). This is a poetic description of that devastating stampede of frightened horses, there having been no possibility whatever that the charioteers of Sisera's army could have restrained or hindered them in any manner.

"Curse ye Meroz" (Judges 5:23). "The inhabitants of this village, located twelve miles from Samaria, hung back, and gave no help in the day of battle, even though it had been Jehovah himself who had called them,"[34] but the significant thing is that the angel of Jehovah himself commanded the curse. The reason is significant. "Because they came not to the help of Jehovah." What a dreadful warning is this for hundreds of thousands of "good people" who have never lifted even a little finger to help the cause of God in times of widespread rebellion, atheism, and violence.