Judges 6:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

Tents

Song of Songs 1:5

Isaiah 13:20

As grasshoppers

Judges 7:12

Judges 8:10

Jeremiah 46:23

Their camels

To destroy

Psalm 83:4

General references

Bible References

Tents

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

It shall never be inhabited, nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, nor shall shepherds make their flocks to lay down there.

As grasshoppers

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

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 sons of the east, for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew a sword.

They shall cut down her forest, says LORD, though it cannot be searched because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

Their camels

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.

The multitude of camels shall cover thee. The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of LORD.

They shall take their tents and their flocks. 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!

To destroy

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

General references

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth. So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered.

And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, for it was without number.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor. [It] is the gift of God.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.