Judges 7:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

The midianites

Judges 6:3

1 Kings 4:30

Grasshoppers

General references

Genesis 41:49

Bible References

The midianites

For it was whenever Israel had sown [their seed] that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the people of the east and go up against them.

Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Grasshoppers

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies, about fifteen thousand [fighting] men, all who were left of the entire army of the sons of the east; for a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.

Now Zerah the Ethiopian (Cushite) came out against Judah with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came as far as Mareshah.

O Lord, how my enemies have increased!
Many are rising up against me.

The king is not saved by the great size of his army;
A warrior is not rescued by his great strength.

All nations encompassed me;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

“Be broken [in pieces], O peoples, and be shattered!
Listen, all you [our enemies from the] far countries.
Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered;
Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered.

General references

Thus Joseph gathered and stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting it, for it could not be measured.