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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. The Lord sent a prophet to them. He said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘You were slaves in the land of Egypt. I made you free and brought you out of that land.

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Footnotes

  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.

Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out(A) to the Lord for help.

When the Israelites cried out(B) to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a prophet,(C) who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt,(D) out of the land of slavery.(E)

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