Judges 6:5

for, they with their cattle, used to come up, with their tents—yea they used to come like locusts, for multitude, both they and their cattle, were without number,—so they came into the land, to lay it waste.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

4and encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the land, until thou comest unto Gaza,—neither left they sustenance in Israel, nor sheep nor ox, nor ass;

6Thus was Israel greatly impoverished, because of Midian,—and the sons of Israel made outcry unto Yahweh.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up,—and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days;

Judges 8:10Now, Zebah and Zalmunna, were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left out of all the host of the sons of the east,—and, the fallen, were a hundred and twenty thousand men, who had drawn the sword.

1 Samuel 30:17And David smote them, from the closing twilight even unto the evening of the next day,—and there escaped not of them a man, save four hundred young men who rode upon camels, and fled.

Song of Solomon 1:5[SHE] Swarthy, I am but comely, ye daughters of Jerusalem. [THEY] Like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Isaiah 60:6The multitude of camels, shall cover thee The young camels of Midian and Ephah, All they of Sheba, shall come,—Gold and frankincense, shall they bring, And, the praises of Yahweh, shall they joyfully tell:

Jeremiah 49:29Their tents and their flocks, shall they take, And their curtains and all their baggage and their camels, shall they carry off for themselves,—And shall cry out unto them, Terror round about!

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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