Thematic Bible: Often subdued and made tributary


Thematic Bible



And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain