Judges 6:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

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  • Lev 26:16 : 16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
  • Deut 28:51 : 51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
  • Jer 49:9-9 : 9 If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough? 10 I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.
  • Obad 1:5 : 5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?
  • Deut 28:30-31 : 30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it. 31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.
  • Gen 10:19 : 19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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  • Judg 6:1-3
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    86%

    1 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.

    2 And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

    3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

  • Judg 6:5-7
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    86%

    5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

    6 And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.

    7 And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,

  • Judg 7:12
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    12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    76%

    15 And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

  • Num 31:9-11
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    75%

    9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

    10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

    11 They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

  • Josh 11:14
    74%

    14 And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
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    3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • Deut 28:51
    74%

    51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • Judg 6:33
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    33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    73%

    21 And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

  • Josh 11:8
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    8 And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.

  • Jer 5:17
    73%

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Josh 6:21
    73%

    21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

  • 2 Kgs 3:24-25
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    73%

    24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

    25 Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.

  • 1 Chr 4:41
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    41 And these whose names are given came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who were living there, and put an end to them to this day, and took their place, because there was grass there for their flocks.

  • Josh 10:41
    73%

    41 Joshua overcame them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

  • Ps 105:35
    73%

    35 And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.

  • Num 25:17
    72%

    17 Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

  • Josh 11:20
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    20 For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • Judg 20:42
    72%

    42 So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

  • Deut 2:15
    72%

    15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

  • Ps 83:9
    72%

    9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

  • 1 Sam 27:9
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    9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.

  • Gen 14:7
    72%

    7 Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

  • Num 14:45
    71%

    45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

  • Josh 11:4
    71%

    4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.

  • Gen 34:28
    71%

    28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,

  • Zeph 2:4
    71%

    4 For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.

  • Judg 2:14-15
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    71%

    14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.

    15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

  • Josh 24:8
    71%

    8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • Num 31:7
    70%

    7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
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    48 And he did great things, and overcame the Amalekites, and made Israel safe from the hands of their attackers.

  • Exod 10:15
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    15 For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 1:44
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    44 And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
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    10 And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

  • Deut 31:4
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    4 The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

  • Judg 8:10
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    10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

    6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

  • Josh 10:10
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    10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah

  • Judg 7:23
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    23 And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.