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.

So was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites: therefore the [a]children of Israel cried unto the Lord.

¶ And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites,

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:6 This is the end of God’s punishments, to call his to repentance, that they may seek for help of him.

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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