Judges 6:5

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When 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.

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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 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.
  • Judg 8:21 : 21 Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon,“Come on, you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.” So Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.
  • 1 Sam 30:17 : 17 But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.
  • Ps 83:4-9 : 4 They say,“Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.” 5 Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. 6 It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. 8 Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot.(Selah) 9 Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! 10 They were destroyed at En Dor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12 who said,“Let’s take over the pastures of God!”
  • Song 1:5 : 5 The Country Maiden and the Daughters of JerusalemThe Beloved to the Maidens: I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.
  • Isa 13:20 : 20 No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there.
  • Isa 60:6 : 6 Camel caravans will cover your roads, young camels from Midian and Ephah. All the merchants of Sheba will come, bringing gold and incense and singing praises to the LORD.
  • Jer 46:23 : 23 The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the LORD, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.
  • Jer 49:29 : 29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken away. Their tent curtains, equipment, and camels will be carried off. People will shout to them,‘Terror is all around you!’”
  • Jer 49:32 : 32 Their camels will be taken as plunder. Their vast herds will be taken as spoil. I will scatter to the four winds those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples. I will bring disaster against them from every direction,” says the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 6:1-4
    4 verses
    86%

    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.

    3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

    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.

  • Judg 7:12
    84%

    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.

  • Josh 11:4
    75%

    4These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots.

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

    21They seized the Hagrites’ animals, including 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took captive 100,000 people.

    22Because God fought for them, they killed many of the enemy. They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.

  • Judg 6:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    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,

  • Ps 105:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

    35They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.

  • Jer 46:23
    74%

    23The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the LORD, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    73%

    15They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 6:33
    71%

    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.

  • Num 31:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Exod 10:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.

    15They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 4:41
    71%

    41The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, for they found pasture for their sheep there.

  • Joel 2:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!

    4They look like horses; they charge ahead like war horses.

    5They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.

  • Num 25:17
    70%

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

  • Exod 10:12
    70%

    12The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”

  • Nah 3:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!

    16Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

  • Jer 8:16
    70%

    16The snorting of the enemy’s horses is already being heard in the city of Dan. The sound of the neighing of their stallions causes the whole land to tremble with fear. They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it! They are coming to destroy the cities and everyone who lives in them!”

  • Isa 33:4
    70%

    4Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

  • Jer 5:17
    69%

    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Exod 12:38
    69%

    38A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds– a very large number of cattle.

  • Hab 1:9
    69%

    9All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.

  • Hab 3:7
    69%

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

  • Ps 78:46
    69%

    46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

  • Jer 49:29
    69%

    29Their tents and their flocks will be taken away. Their tent curtains, equipment, and camels will be carried off. People will shout to them,‘Terror is all around you!’”

  • Deut 1:44
    69%

    44The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

  • Isa 37:27
    69%

    27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Exod 10:5
    69%

    5They will cover the surface of the earth, so that you will be unable to see the ground. They will eat the remainder of what escaped– what is left over for you– from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you from the field.

  • Deut 2:15
    69%

    15Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    69%

    27When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

  • Num 22:4
    69%

    4So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian,“Now this mass of people will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field.” Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.

  • Judg 7:23
    69%

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

  • Num 31:32
    68%

    32The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,