For whenever Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the [a]people of the east and [b]march against them. So they would camp against them and (A)destroy the produce of the earth [c]as far as Gaza, and (B)leave no sustenance in Israel, nor a sheep, ox, or donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in (C)like locusts in number, and both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to ruin it. So Israel was brought (D)very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:3 Lit sons
  2. Judges 6:3 Lit go up against
  3. Judges 6:4 Lit until your coming to

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;

And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

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.

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.

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Let me (A)sow and another eat,
And let my [a](B)crops be uprooted.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:8 Or offspring

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

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