Shìshījì 6:3

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

Shìshījì 6:3 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 6:3

And so it was, when Israel had sown
Their land, and it was grown up, and near being ripe, or quite; for the Midianites gave them no disturbance in the winter, and during seedtime, when they came out of their lurking holes, and manured their land, and sowed it:

that the Midianites came up;
into the land of Canaan, from the other side Jordan, where their country lay, and which it seems lay lower than the land of Israel:

and the Amalekites, and the children of the east:
the former were implacable enemies of Israel, and on every occasion would join other nations in oppressing them; and the children of the east were Arabians, as Josephus ^F2 expressly affirms:

even they came up against them;
all these three sorts of people in a confederacy.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 6. sect. 1.

Shìshījì 6:3 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 .