⁵ For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts.^(A) They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to lay waste to it.

⁵ The Philistines also gathered to fight against Israel: three thousand^[a] chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore.^(A) They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.^[b](B)