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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Judges 6:5

Locusts. This comparison shews the rapacity and devastation of the enemy. Locusts in those countries often obscure the air with their numbers, and presently eat up every green thing. They proceed in regular order like a great battalion, and it is reported that they send some before to explore the country. (St. Jerome in Joel ii.; Bochart; Calmet) (Genesis x. 4.)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 6:5. _THEY CAME UP WITH THEIR CATTLE AND THEIR TENTS_] All this proves that they were different tribes of _wanderers_ who had no fixed residence; but, like their descendants the _Bedouins...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    GRASSHOPPERS - Rather locusts (compare Exodus 10:4, Exodus 10:14; Joel 1; Joel 2;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. FOURTH DECLENSION: UNDER MIDIAN AND GIDEON, TOLA AND JAIR CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Israel's suffering from Midian (Judges 6:1)_ 2. Their repentance and the divine answer (Judges 6:7) 3. Gideon, the deliv...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEPREDATIONS OF THE MIDIANITES. D, whose phrases occur in Judges 6:1 f., Judges 6:6, sees in the ebb and flow of Israel's fortune an index of their moral and spiritual condition. National sufferin...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GRASSHOPPERS. locusts....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The Midianite oppression_ 1 _._The Deuteronomic editor introduces a fresh subject in his accustomed manner: cf. Judges 2:11; Judges 2:14; Judges 3:7; Judge

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _as locusts_ Repeated in Judges 7:12; for the comparison see Jeremiah 46:23. The text of Judges 6:3 shews signs of a mixed origin. Thus the grammar is irregular, frequentative tenses in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Gideon of Manasseh and Abimelech Judges 6:1 to Judges 9:57 _Midian Oppresses Israel Judges 6:1-10_ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THEY CAME UP WITH THEIR CATTLE AND THEIR TENTS, AND THEY CAME AS GRASSHOPPERS FOR MULTITUDE; FOR BOTH THEY AND THEIR CAMELS WERE WITHOUT NUMBER: AND THEY ENTERED INTO THE LAND TO DESTROY IT._ Th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GIDEON AND THE MIDIANITES The story of Gideon, which runs from Judges 6:1 to Judges 8:33, is more detailed than that of Deborah and Barak; and, from the details, it would appear that different traditi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GRASSHOPPERS] RV 'locusts.' 8-10. The Israelites rebuked by a Prophet....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 The stories about Gideon and his son, Abimelech are the most important ones in the book. John J. Davies says, ‘Gideon is the ideal judge like Mose...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AS GRASSHOPPERS. — See Judges 7:12. Rather, _as locusts._ The magnificent imagery of Joel 2:2 enables us to realise the force of the metaphor, and Exodus 10:4 the number of locusts, which are a common...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֡י הֵם֩ וּ מִקְנֵיהֶ֨ם יַעֲל֜וּ וְ אָהֳלֵי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE DESERT HORDES; AND THE MAN AT OPHRAH Judges 6:1 JABIN king of Canaan defeated and his nine hundred chariots turned into ploughshares, we might expect Israel to make at last a start in its true ca...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    After the passing of these forty years, sin again brought punishment. The people passed under the oppression of Midian. It was oppression of the severest kind and lasted for seven years. A terrible pi...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    When Israel again did evil in the sight of God, he delivered them into the hands of the Midianites, who were descendants of Abraham and Keturah (Genesis 25:1-2). They were allied in the oppression of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How hath the Holy Ghost marked with precision, this very state of punishment which the Lord exercises over the sins of his people. See Leviticus 26:16....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and He delivered them into the hand of Midian. And the children of Israel cried again unto Jehovah. God reveals the cause of their di...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THEY CAME UP WITH THEIR CATTLE, AND THEIR TENTS,.... Brought their flocks and their herds with them, to eat up the increase of the earth, and their tents, which they pitched and removed from place...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. Ve...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The children of the east_ Probably the Ishmaelites, or Arabians, especially the eastern part of them. _Unto Gaza_ That is, from the east, on which side they entered, to the west, where Gaza was, near...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Israelites for their sinne are oppressed by Midian. 8 A prophet rebuketh them. 11 An Angel sendeth Gideon for their deliuerance. 17 Gideons Present is consumed with fire. 24 Gideon destroyet...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE OPPRESSION OF MIDIAN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For they, the Midianites and their allies, CAME UP WITH THEIR CATTLE AND THEIR TENTS, fully supplied with all they needed; AND THEY CAME AS GRASSHOPPERS, locusts, FOR MULTITUDE, and also for voracity;...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE OPPRESSION OF MIDIAN (vv.1-10) However, Israel again repeated the evil of departing from the Lord. This time the Lord used Midian to put them under a yoke of oppression which lasted seven years...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Israel's sin was renewed, and Israel's troubles were repeated. Let all that sin expect to suffer. The Israelites hid themselves in dens and caves; such was the effect of a guilty conscience. Sin d...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITHOUT NUMBER, i.e. so many that it was not easy to number them. It is an _hyperbole_....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 6:5 up H5927 (H8799) livestock H4735 tents H168 coming H935 (H8804) (H8675) H935 (H87

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ For they came up with their cattle, and their tents, they came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number. And they came in to the land to destroy it.' They were the...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Judges 6-8 In the first words of Gideon we find the key to his character. (1) He was a man who felt deeply the degradation of his people. He could not enjoy his own harvest while the Midianites were r...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: More apostasy in Israel. Call of Gideon. CHARACTERS: God, Angel of Jehovah (Jesus), Holy Spirit, Gideon, prophet, Joash. CONCLUSION: In times of apostasy, God often calls His mightiest ser...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Judges 6:1. _The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian,_ the descendants of Abraham's fourth son by Keturah, who oppressed them for seven years. Genesis 25:2. Judges 6:3. _The children of the ea...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens _. .. _ and caves and strongholds._ DIVINE PUNISHMENT THROUGH NATURAL MEANS Thus God gets at men through various means. The Midian...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 6:1__ The fifth judge was Gideon, who fought the Midianites twice. The first time he followed God’s instructions (Judges 7:1); the second time he did not ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _ISRAEL’S RELAPSE INTO SIN, AND THEIR OPPRESSION BY THE MIDIANITES. Judges 6:1_ CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 6:1. DID EVIL, etc.] Not _continued_ to do evil, though that is implied (pp. 158, 186). Deborah...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 30:17; Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 60:6; Jeremiah 46:23; Jere

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Without number — That is, so many that it was not easy to number them. And not in a regular army to engage, but in a confused swarm, to plunder the country. Yet Israel, being forsaken of God, had not...

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