Judges 6:5

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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, daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.

As grasshoppers

And the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the seashore for multitude.

Now Zebah and Zalmun'na were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East; for there had fallen a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword.

They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

Their camels

Then Zebah and Zalmun'na said, "Rise yourself, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmun'na; and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels.

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

A multitude of camels shall cover thee, young camels of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall publish the praises of Jehovah.

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

To destroy

They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

General references

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.

And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.

yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof: