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 when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go 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, and their armies with them, about 15,000 men, all who were left of the entire army of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 swordsmen.

Now Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!
Many are rising up against me.

The king is not saved by a mighty army;

A warrior is not delivered by great strength.

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

“Be broken, O peoples, and be

shattered;

And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

General references

Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.