Judges 6:1

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight. So the Lord handed them over to the Midianites for seven years.

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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

2The Midianite oppression was so great that because of them the Israelites made themselves hiding places in mountains, caves, and fortifications.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:2She had the following sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Numbers 25:15The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi, daughter of Zur, a family leader of a Midianite tribe.

Numbers 31:1The Lord told Moses,

Judges 2:11The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight, and they worshiped the Baals.

Judges 2:19But when the judge died, the people relapsed, and did worse things even than their forefathers, following other gods and worshiping them. They refused to give up what they were doing and held to their stubborn ways.

Nehemiah 9:26But they completely rebelled against you. They tossed your Law over their shoulders. They killed your prophets who warned them to try and bring them back to you, and they committed terrible 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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