Judges 6:5

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Judg 7:12 : 12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
  • Judg 8:10 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
  • Judg 8:21 : 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.
  • 1 Sam 30:17 : 17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
  • Ps 83:4-9 : 4 "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more." 5 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. 9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; 10 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; 12 who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."
  • Song 1:5 : 5 I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.
  • Isa 13:20 : 20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
  • Isa 60:6 : 6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
  • Jer 46:23 : 23 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
  • Jer 49:29 : 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!
  • Jer 49:32 : 32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 6:1-4
    4 verses
    86%

    1The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

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

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

    4and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

  • Judg 7:12
    84%

    12The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

  • Josh 11:4
    75%

    4They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

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

    21They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

    22For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.

  • Judg 6:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

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

    7It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,

  • Ps 105:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

    35ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

  • Jer 46:23
    74%

    23They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    73%

    15They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 6:33
    71%

    33Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

  • Num 31:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

    10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

    11They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

  • Exod 10:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

    15For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 4:41
    71%

    41These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

  • Joel 2:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

    4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.

    5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

  • Num 25:17
    70%

    17"Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

  • Exod 10:12
    70%

    12Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."

  • Nah 3:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

    16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

  • Jer 8:16
    70%

    16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.

  • Isa 33:4
    70%

    4Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

  • Jer 5:17
    69%

    17They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

  • Exod 12:38
    69%

    38A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

  • Hab 1:9
    69%

    9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

  • Hab 3:7
    69%

    7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

  • Ps 78:46
    69%

    46He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

  • Jer 49:29
    69%

    29Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!

  • Deut 1:44
    69%

    44The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

  • Isa 37:27
    69%

    27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

  • Exod 10:5
    69%

    5and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

  • Deut 2:15
    69%

    15Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    69%

    27The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.

  • Num 22:4
    69%

    4Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

  • Judg 7:23
    69%

    23The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.

  • Num 31:32
    68%

    32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,