Judges 6:1

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

In Context

2And they were grievously oppressed by them. And they made themselves dens and eaves in the mountains, and strong holds to resist.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:2Who bore to him Zamran, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue.

Numbers 25:15And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites.

Numbers 31:1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Judges 2:11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim.

Judges 2:19But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.

Nehemiah 9:26But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee : and they were guilty of 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 →

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