When Israel had sown, then came up the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the [a]East, and came upon them,

And camped by them, and destroyed the fruit of the earth, even till thou come unto [b]Gaza, and left no food for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

For they went up, and their cattle, and came with their tents as grasshoppers in multitude: so that they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:3 Or, of Kedem.
  2. Judges 6:4 Even almost the whole country.

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites(A) and other eastern peoples(B) invaded the country. They camped on the land and ruined the crops(C) all the way to Gaza(D) and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(E) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(F) they invaded the land to ravage it.

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