Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Was midian
Forty years
Bible References
Was midian
Psalm 83:9
Do to them as you did to Midian -- as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
Isaiah 9:4
For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian's defeat.
Isaiah 10:26
The Lord who commands armies is about to beat them with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt.
Forty years
Judges 3:11
The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:31
May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest!" And the land had rest for forty years.