Judges 6:5

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For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

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2The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel); and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.

3So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

4They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.

5For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

6Israel) was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.

7When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,

8Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel); and he said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage.

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