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 dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.

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.

As grasshoppers

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

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.

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

Their camels

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise up yourself, and kill us, for a man is judged by his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that were on their camels' necks.

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.

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 the LORD.

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.'

To destroy

"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

General references

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.