Judges 6:1
Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, who delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years.
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Genesis 25:2And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Numbers 25:15Moreover, the Midianite woman, who was put to death together with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Zur, a most noble leader among the Midianites.
Numbers 31:1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Judges 2:11And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served the Baals.
Judges 2:19But after a judge had died, they turned back, and they were doing much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them, and adoring them. They did not abandon their pursuits and their very stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.
Nehemiah 9:26But they provoked you to wrath, and they withdrew from you, and they cast your law behind their backs. And they killed your prophets, who contended with them so that they might return to you. And they committed great blasphemies.
Matthew Henry on Judges 6:1
Nothing that occurred in the quiet and peaceable times of Israel is recorded; the forty years' rest after the conquest of Jabin is passed over in silence; and here begins the story of another distress and another deliverance, by Gideon, the fourth of the judges. Here is, I. The calamitous condition of Israel, by the inroads of the Midianites, ver. 1-6 . II. The message God sent them by a prophet, by convincing them of sin, to prepare them for deliverance, ver. 7-10 . III. The raising up of Gideon to be their… Read the whole commentary →