Shìshījì 6:1

1 Yǐsèliè rén yòu xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , Yēhéhuá jiù bǎ tāmen jiāo zaì Mǐdiàn rén shǒu lǐ qī nián .

Shìshījì 6:1 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 6:1

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord,
&c.] After the death of Deborah and Barak, during whose life they kept to the pure worship of God, and who, perhaps, lived pretty near the close of the forty years' rest, or of the twenty years from their victory over Jabin; but they dying, the children of Israel fell into idolatry, for that that was the evil they did appears from ( Judges 6:10 ) , even worshipping the gods of the Amorites:

and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years:
this was not the Midian where Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, lived, which lay more southward, but that which joined to Moab, and was more eastward. This people had been destroyed by the Israelites in the times of Moses, in their way to the land of Canaan, ( Numbers 31:1 ) wherefore they might bear them a grudge, and now took the opportunity to revenge themselves on them, God permitting them so to do for their sins; and though the destruction of this people by Israel was very general, yet as some of them might make their escape, and afterwards return to their own land, and this being about two hundred years ago, might, with others joining them, repeople their country by this time, and become strong and powerful.

Shìshījì 6:1 In-Context

1 Yǐsèliè rén yòu xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , Yēhéhuá jiù bǎ tāmen jiāo zaì Mǐdiàn rén shǒu lǐ qī nián .

2 Mǐdiàn rén yēzhì Yǐsèliè rén . Yǐsèliè rén yīnwei Mǐdiàn rén , jiù zaì shān zhōng wā xué , wā dòng , jiànzào yíng zhaì .

3 Yǐsèliè rén mĕi fùng sǎzhǒng zhī hòu , Mǐdiàn rén , Yàmǎlì rén , hé dōngfāngrén dōu shàng lái gōngdǎ tāmen ,

4 Duì zhe tāmen ān yíng , huǐhuaì tǔchǎn , zhídào Jiāsà , méiyǒu gĕi Yǐsèliè rén liú xià shíwù , niú , yáng , lü yĕ méiyǒu liú xià .

5 Yīnwei nàxiē rén daì zhe shēngchù zhàngpéng lái , xiàng huángchóng nàyàng duō , rén hé luòtuo wú shǔ , dōu jìnrù guóneì , huǐhuaì quán dì .