Judges 6:1
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years.
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Genesis 25:2She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Numbers 25:15The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Kozbi daughter of Zur, who was head of a tribe and family in Midian.
Numbers 31:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
Judges 2:11The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and they served the Baals.
Judges 2:19But when the judge died, they would turn away and do things that were even more corrupt than their fathers had done. They would go after other gods to serve them and worship them. They refused to give up any of their evil practices or their stubborn ways.
Nehemiah 9:26Then they became disobedient and they rebelled against you. They threw your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who had warned them to turn back 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 →