Judges 6:5

Whenever they and their livestock and tents came up, they would come as a swarm of locusts, and it was impossible to count either the people or their camels. They invaded the land in order to destroy it.

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In The King James Version

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

In Context

4They would set up their army on the land and destroy the crops, all the way to Gaza. They would leave no food in Israel, and no sheep, nor cattle or donkeys.

6Midian weakened the Israelites so severely that the people of Israel called out to Yahweh.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:33The harvest of your land and of all your labors—a nation that you do not know will eat it up; you will always be oppressed and crushed,

Judges 8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who remained out of the entire army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.

1 Samuel 30:17David attacked them from the twilight to the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped except for four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

Song of Solomon 1:5I am dark but lovely, 1 you daughters of Jerusalem— 1 dark like the tents of Kedar, 1 lovely like the curtains of Solomon. 1

Isaiah 60:6Camel caravans will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; 1 all of them will come from Sheba; 1 they will bring gold and frankincense, and will sing the praises of Yahweh. 1

Jeremiah 49:29Their tents and their flocks will be taken, 1 along with their tent curtains and all of their equipment; 1 their camels will be led away from them, 1 and men will shout to them, “Terror is on every side!” 1

Matthew Henry on Judges 6:2-7

The Inroads of the Midianites. ( b. c. 1249.) 1 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. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they… Read the whole commentary →

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