For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were [a]without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it.

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  1. Judges 6:5 innumerable

12 Now the Midianites and Amalekites, (A)all the people of the East, were lying in the valley (B)as numerous as locusts; and their camels were [a]without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.

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  1. Judges 7:12 innumerable

10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were at Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of (A)all the army of the people of the East; for (B)one hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword had fallen.

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32 Their camels shall be for booty,
And the multitude of their cattle for plunder.
I will (A)scatter to all winds those [a]in the farthest corners,
And I will bring their calamity from all its sides,” says the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 49:32 Lit. cut off at the corner, Jer. 9:26; 25:23

29 Their (A)tents and their flocks they shall take away.
They shall take for themselves their curtains,
All their vessels and their camels;
And they shall cry out to them,
(B)‘Fear is on every side!’

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23 “They shall (A)cut down her forest,” says the Lord,
“Though it cannot be searched,
Because they are innumerable,
And more numerous than (B)grasshoppers.

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The multitude of camels shall cover your land,
The dromedaries of Midian and (A)Ephah;
All those from (B)Sheba shall come;
They shall bring (C)gold and incense,
And they shall proclaim the praises of the Lord.

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20 (A)It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

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They have said, “Come, and (A)let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

For they have consulted together with one [a]consent;
They [b]form a confederacy against You:
(B)The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab and the Hagrites;
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assyria also has joined with them;
They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

Deal with them as with (C)Midian,
As with (D)Sisera,
As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
10 Who perished at En Dor,
(E)Who became as refuse on the earth.
11 Make their nobles like (F)Oreb and like Zeeb,
Yes, all their princes like (G)Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, “Let us take for ourselves
The pastures of God for a possession.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 83:5 Lit. heart
  2. Psalm 83:5 Lit. cut a covenant

17 Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

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21 So Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself, and kill us; for as a man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon arose and (A)killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.

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