Judges 6:3

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Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

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  • Judg 7:12 : 12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.
  • Judg 3:13 : 13 Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the city of date palm trees.
  • Judg 6:33 : 33 Gideon Summons an Army and Seeks Confirmation All the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east assembled. They crossed the Jordan River and camped in the Jezreel Valley.
  • Judg 8:10 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
  • Gen 29:1 : 1 The Marriages of Jacob So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
  • Deut 28:30-33 : 30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. 33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
  • Deut 28:51 : 51 They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
  • Job 31:8 : 8 then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.
  • Isa 65:21-22 : 21 They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.
  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 6:4-7
    4 verses
    86%

    4They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

    5When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

    6Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.

    7When the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help because of Midian,

  • Judg 6:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1Oppression and Confrontation The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD turned them over to Midian for seven years.

    2The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

  • Judg 6:33
    81%

    33Gideon Summons an Army and Seeks Confirmation All the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east assembled. They crossed the Jordan River and camped in the Jezreel Valley.

  • Judg 7:12
    79%

    12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

  • Exod 17:8
    76%

    8Victory over the Amalekites Amalek came and attacked Israel in Rephidim.

  • Judg 10:9
    74%

    9The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight with Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. Israel suffered greatly.

  • Num 31:9
    74%

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

  • Num 25:17
    74%

    17“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,

  • Judg 11:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.

    5When the Ammonites attacked, the leaders of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back from the land of Tob.

  • 2 Kgs 3:24
    73%

    24When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites thoroughly defeated Moab.

  • Judg 3:13
    73%

    13Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the city of date palm trees.

  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Here is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

    3So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

  • Judg 7:23
    73%

    23Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh answered the call and chased the Midianites.

  • Hab 3:7
    72%

    7I saw the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian were shaking.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    72%

    48He fought bravely, striking down the Amalekites and delivering Israel from the hand of its enemies.

  • Ps 83:9
    72%

    9Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!

  • Gen 14:7
    72%

    7Then they attacked En Mishpat(that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

  • Deut 25:17
    72%

    17Treatment of the Amalekites Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

  • Num 31:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites– after that you will be gathered to your people.”

    3So Moses spoke to the people:“Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    72%

    10Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

  • 1 Sam 12:9
    72%

    9“But they forgot the LORD their God, so he gave them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s army, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

  • Num 14:45
    72%

    45So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.

  • Judg 11:16
    71%

    16When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.

  • Gen 42:5
    71%

    5So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

  • Judg 6:16
    71%

    16The LORD said to him,“Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.”

  • Judg 2:15
    71%

    15Whenever they went out to fight, the LORD did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.

  • Judg 7:1
    71%

    1Gideon Reduces the Ranks Jerub-Baal(that is, Gideon) and his men got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. The Midianites were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

  • Num 22:3
    71%

    3And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.

  • 1 Sam 7:7
    71%

    7When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, the leaders of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the Israelites heard about this, they were afraid of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 30:1
    71%

    1David Defeats the Amalekites On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.

  • Judg 10:12
    71%

    12the Sidonians, Amalek, and Midian when they oppressed you? You cried out for help to me, and I delivered you from their power.

  • 2 Chr 20:23
    71%

    23The Ammonites and Moabites attacked the men from Mount Seir and annihilated them. When they had finished off the men of Seir, they attacked and destroyed one another.

  • Judg 10:6
    71%

    6The Lord’s Patience Runs Short The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not worship him.

  • Num 31:7
    71%

    7They fought against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male.