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.
Was midian
Forty years
Bible References
Was midian
Psalm 83:9
Do thou to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon,
Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou have broken as in the day of Midian.
Isaiah 10:26
And LORD of hosts will stir up against him a scourge as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up according to the manner of Egypt.
Forty years
Judges 3:11
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.