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

And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Grasshoppers

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

General references

So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.