Judges 7:12

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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 so it used to be, if Israel had sown, then came up Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east, yea came up against them,

so that, the wisdom of Solomon, excelled, the wisdom of all the sons of the East, - and all the wisdom of the Egyptians,

Grasshoppers

Now, Zebah and Zalmunna, were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left out of all the host of the sons of the east, - and, the fallen, were a hundred and twenty thousand men, who had drawn the sword.

Then came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian, with a force of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots, - and he came as far as Mareshah.

Yahweh! how have mine adversaries multiplied, Multitudes, are rising against me;

Not a king, can be saved by greatness of force, nor, hero, deliver himself by greatness of strength:

All nations, have compassed me about, In the Name of Yahweh, surely I will make them be circumcised;

Rage, O ye peoples, - and be overthrown, And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth, - Gird yourselves and be overthrown, Gird yourselves, and be overthrown:

General references

Thus did Joseph heap up corn like the sand of the sea making it exceeding abundant, - until one hath left off reckoning, because it cannot be reckoned.