Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

Forty years

Bible References

Was midian

Psalm 83:9
Deal with them as with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon,
Isaiah 9:4
For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders,
The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.
Isaiah 10:26
The Lord of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

Forty years

Judges 3:11
Then the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:31
Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord;
But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”
And the land was undisturbed for forty years.