Judges 6:6

6 Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites, and the {Israelites} cried out to Yahweh.

Judges 6:6 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 6:6

And Israel was greatly impoverished, because of the Midianites,
&c.] Were reduced very low, brought into famishing circumstances through the Midianites thus destroying the fruits of the earth year after year:

and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord;
which they should have done at first, instead of going into dens and caves; however, better late than not at all; they cried, not to the idols they had served, being sensible they could not help them, though so as to worship them; but to Jehovah the God of the whole earth, and who was in a special sense their God, though they had forsaken him.

Judges 6:6 In-Context

4 They would camp against them and destroy the produce of the land {as far as} Gaza; they left no produce in Israel, or sheep, ox, or donkey.

5 For they, their livestock, and their tents would come up like a great number of locusts; they and their camels could not be counted; they came into the land and devoured it.

6 Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites, and the {Israelites} cried out to Yahweh.

7 When the {Israelites} cried out to Yahweh on account of the Midianites,

8 Yahweh sent a prophet to the {Israelites}, and he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I brought you up from Egypt; I brought you from the house of slavery.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "Midianite"
• [b] Literally "sons/children of Israel"