士师记 6:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為他們帶著牲畜和帳棚上來，像蝗蟲那麼多；他們來的人和駱駝無數，進入境內，毀壞全地。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 那 些 人 带 着 牲 畜 帐 棚 来 ， 像 蝗 虫 那 样 多 ， 人 和 骆 驼 无 数 ， 都 进 入 国 内 ， 毁 坏 全 地 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Again the Israelites did what the Lord said was wrong. So for seven years the Lord handed them over to Midian. ² Because the Midianites were very powerful and were cruel to Israel, the Israelites made hiding places in the mountains, in caves, and in safe places. ³ Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other peoples from the east would come and attack them. ⁴ They camped in the land and destroyed the crops that the Israelites had planted as far away as Gaza. They left nothing for Israel to eat, and no sheep, cattle, or donkeys. ⁵ The Midianites came with their tents and their animals like swarms of locusts to ruin the land. There were so many people and camels they could not be counted. ⁶ Israel became very poor because of the Midianites, so they cried out to the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tents: Song of Solomon 1:5, Isaiah 13:20

as grasshoppers: Judges 7:12, Judges 8:10, Jeremiah 46:23

their camels: Judges 8:21, 1 Samuel 30:17, Isaiah 60:6, Jeremiah 49:29, Jeremiah 49:32

to destroy: Psalms 83:4-12

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:16 - General Genesis 41:49 - General 1 Kings 20:27 - like two 2 Chronicles 12:3 - without number Job 1:3 - seven Psalms 106:43 - brought low Jeremiah 51:14 - as with Jeremiah 51:27 - cause

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.

Genesis 6:3
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

Genesis 6:9
This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.

Genesis 6:19
Also, you must bring into the boat two of every living thing, male and female. Keep them alive with you.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.

Genesis 6:21
Also gather some of every kind of food and store it on the boat as food for you and the animals."

Genesis 8:21
The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Genesis 13:13
Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord .

Deuteronomy 29:19
These are the kind of people who hear these curses but bless themselves, thinking, "We will be safe even though we continue doing what we want to do." Those people may destroy all of your land, both wet and dry.

Gill's Notes on the 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 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" c, 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 d, 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 e relates; which passage Grotius has quoted at large.

c כדי ארבה "tanquam locustae", Pagninus, V. L. Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. d Descriptio Africae, l. 9. p. 745. e Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Grasshoppers - Rather locusts (compare Exodus 10:4-6, Exodus 10:14-15; Joel 1:0; Joel 2:0; Psalms 78:46)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 or wandering Arabs, removed from place to place to get prey for themselves and forage for their cattle.