Judges 6:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Judg 7:12 : 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.
  • Judg 8:10 : 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.
  • Judg 8:21 : 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.
  • 1 Sam 30:17 : 17 And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.
  • Ps 83:4-9 : 4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory. 5 For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre; 8 Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.) 9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon: 10 Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste. 11 Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna: 12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.
  • Song 1:5 : 5 I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
  • Isa 13:20 : 20 People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.
  • Isa 60:6 : 6 You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.
  • Jer 46:23 : 23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.
  • Jer 49:29 : 29 Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.
  • Jer 49:32 : 32 And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.

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  • Judg 6:1-4
    4 verses
    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;

    4 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.

  • Judg 7:12
    84%

    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.

  • Josh 11:4
    75%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 5:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    22 And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

  • Judg 6:6-7
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    74%

    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,

  • Ps 105:34-35
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    74%

    34 At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

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

  • Jer 46:23
    74%

    23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    73%

    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.

  • Judg 6:33
    71%

    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.

  • Num 31:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Exod 10:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.

    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.

  • 1 Chr 4:41
    71%

    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.

  • Joel 2:3-5
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    70%

    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.

    4 Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.

    5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • Num 25:17
    70%

    17 Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

  • Exod 10:12
    70%

    12 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

  • Nah 3:15-16
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    70%

    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

    16 Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:

  • Jer 8:16
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    16 The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

  • Isa 33:4
    70%

    4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

  • Jer 5:17
    69%

    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.

  • Exod 12:38
    69%

    38 And a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks and herds in great numbers.

  • Hab 1:9
    69%

    9 They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.

  • Hab 3:7
    69%

    7 The curtains of Cushan were troubled, and the tents of Midian were shaking.

  • Ps 78:46
    69%

    46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

  • Jer 49:29
    69%

    29 Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

  • Deut 1:44
    69%

    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.

  • Isa 37:27
    69%

    27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • Exod 10:5
    69%

    5 And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields.

  • Deut 2:15
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    69%

    27 And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.

  • Num 22:4
    69%

    4 Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

  • Judg 7:23
    69%

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

  • Num 31:32
    68%

    32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,