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 to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
Isaiah 10:26
And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
Forty years
Judges 3:11
So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:31
"So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might."And the land had rest for forty years.