Subjugation by Midian
1257 BC, lasting 7 years traditional (Jones)
- Passage
- Judg 6:1-10
- Person
- Midian
- Before
- Death of Joshua
- After
- Birth of Saul
Participants
Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.
Places
Where it happens. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.
Every verse
All 10 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.
Judges10 verses
- 6:1
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
- 6:2
and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
- 6:3
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- 6:4
encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.
- 6:5
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
- 6:6
Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
- 6:7
Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,
- 6:8
He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- 6:9
I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
- 6:10
And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”