Judges 6:1-9 ▼

1 And the sons of Israel did evil in the eyes of YHWH, and YHWH delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. From the faces of the Midianite, the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

3 And it came to pass, when Israel had sown, that Midian came up, and Amalek and the sons of the East, and they came up against him.

4 And they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, either sheep, or ox, or donkey.

5 For they and their livestock and their tents would come up, and they would come as the fullness of the locust for multitude. And of them and their camels was no number, and they would enter the land to destroy it.

6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianite, and the sons of Israel cried out to YHWH.

7 And it came to pass, when the sons of Israel cried out to YHWH on account of the Midianite,

8 that YHWH sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, who said to them, “Thus says YHWH, God of Israel: I brought you? up from Egypt and brought you? out of the house of slavery.

9 And I delivered you? out of the hand of Egypt and out of the hand of all who oppressed you?, and I drove them out before your? faces, and I gave to you? their land.