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The Midianites came with their families, animals, and tents. They were like a swarm of locusts! They and their camels were too many to count. They came into the land and ruined it. The Israelites became very poor because of the Midianites. So the Israelites cried to the Lord for help.

[a] The Midianites did all these bad things, so the Israelites cried to the Lord for help.

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  1. Judges 6:7 These verses do not appear in the oldest Hebrew copy of the book of Judges, the Dead Sea Scroll fragment, 4QJudgesA.

They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(A) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(B) they invaded the land to ravage it. Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out(C) to the Lord for help.

When the Israelites cried out(D) to the Lord because of Midian,

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