Judges 7:12

And Madiam and Amalec and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.

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In The King James Version

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

In Context

11And you shall hear what they shall say, and afterwards your hands shall be strong, and you shall go down into the camp: and he went down and Phara his servant to the extremity of the companies of fifty, which were in the camp.

13And Gedeon came, and behold a man was relating to his neighbor a dream, and he said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Madiam, and it came as far as a tent, and struck it, and it fell, and it turned it up, and the tent fell.

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Cross References

Judges 6:3And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Madiam and Amalec went up, and the children of the east went up together with them.

Judges 6:33And all Madiam, and Amalek, and the sons of the east gathered themselves together, and encamped in the valley of Jezrael.

1 Samuel 13:5And the Philistines gather together to war with Israel; and then come up against Israel thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the seashore for multitude: and they come up, and encamp in Machmas, opposite Baethoron southward.

1 Kings 20:27And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow + 20:27 Gr. the face, as it were, of the Lord. before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his garment, and girded sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he struck Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.

Psalms 3:1O Lord, why are they that afflict me multiplied? many rise up against me. 1

Psalms 118:10With my whole heart have I diligently sought you: cast me not away from your commandments. 1

Matthew Henry on Judges 7:10-16

9 And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. 10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: 11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay… Read the whole commentary →

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