Jueces 6:5

5 Estas multitudes enemigas, que venían con sus animales y sus carpas, eran como una plaga de langostas; llegaban en numerosas manadas de camellos, imposibles de contar, y no se iban hasta que la tierra quedaba desolada.

Jueces 6:5 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 6:5

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 to place, for the convenience of feeding their cattle, and while they cut down the fruit of the earth everywhere, which serves to confirm the sense of the Targum and Vulgate Latin version of ( Judges 6:5 )

and they came as grasshoppers for multitude;
or "as locusts" ^F3, they were like them for their number, and for devouring all they came to:

and their camels were without number;
which they brought with them, to load and carry off their plunder they could not eat. Midian was a place famous for camels and dromedaries, ( Isaiah 60:6 ) and so Arabia, the people of which joined the Midianites in this expedition; of whom Leo Africanus says ^F4, that they reckon of their riches and possessions by their camels; wherefore if anyone speaks of the riches of such a prince or nobleman, he says that he is possessed of so many camels, and not of so many thousands of pieces of gold, see ( Job 1:3 )

and they entered into the city to destroy it;
this was their sole view. In suchlike manner as this did Alyattes king of the Lydians make war with the Milesinns, as Herodotus ^F5 relates; which passage Grotius has quoted at large.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (hbra ydk) "tanquam locustae", Pagninus, V. L. Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F4 Descriptio Africae, l. 9. p. 745.
F5 Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 17.

Jueces 6:5 In-Context

3 Cada vez que los israelitas sembraban sus cultivos, venían saqueadores de Madián, de Amalec y del pueblo del oriente, y atacaban a Israel.

4 Acampaban en territorio israelita y destruían las cosechas hasta la región de Gaza. Se llevaban todas las ovejas, las cabras, el ganado y los burros, y dejaban a los israelitas sin qué comer.

5 Estas multitudes enemigas, que venían con sus animales y sus carpas, eran como una plaga de langostas; llegaban en numerosas manadas de camellos, imposibles de contar, y no se iban hasta que la tierra quedaba desolada.

6 Así que Israel se moría de hambre en manos de los madianitas. Entonces los israelitas clamaron al Señor
por ayuda.

7 Cuando clamaron al Señor
a causa de Madián,