Judges 6:1
Afterwarde the children of Israel committed wickednesse in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gaue them into the handes of Midian seuen yeres.
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Genesis 25:2Which bare him Zimran, and Iokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Numbers 25:15And the name of the Midianitish woman, that was slayne, was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was head ouer the people of his fathers house in Midian.
Numbers 31:1And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Judges 2:11Then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim,
Judges 2:19Yet when the Iudge was dead, they returned, and did worse then their fathers, in following other gods to serue them and worshippe them: they ceased not from their owne inuentions, nor from their rebellious way.
Nehemiah 9:26Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Lawe behinde their backes, and slewe thy Prophets (which protested among them to turne them vnto thee) and 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 →