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 Midian, as Sisera, as Jabin, at the torrent Bison:
Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of his burden and the rod of his shoulder, and the rod of him oppressing with it thou didst break in pieces the day of Midian.
Isaiah 10:26
And Jehovah of armies roused up for him a scourge according to the blow of Midian at the rock Oreb: and his rod upon the sea, and he lifted it up in the way of Egypt
Forty years
Judges 3:11
And the land will rest forty years: and Othniel, son of Kenaz, will die.
Judges 5:31
So shall all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: And those loving him, as the going forth of the sun in his strength. And the land will rest forty years.