Richter 6:1

Schlachter Bibel

Die Kinder Israel taten, was böse war vor dem Herrn ; da gab sie der Herr in die Hand der Midianiter, sieben Jahre lang.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und die Kinder Israel taten, was b�se war in den Augen Jehovas; und Jehova gab sie in die Hand Midians sieben Jahre.

Lutherbible (1912)
Und da die Kinder Israel übel taten vor dem HERRN, gab sie der HERR unter die Hand der Midianiter sieben Jahre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

did evil: Judges 2:13, Judges 2:14, Judges 2:19, Judges 2:20, Leviticus 26:14-46, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Nehemiah 9:26-29, Psalms 106:34-42

delivered: When God judges, he will overcome; and sinners shall be made either to bend or break before him. See the ensuing history.

Midian: Genesis 25:2, Numbers 25:17, Numbers 25:18, Habakkuk 3:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:28 - Midianites Numbers 31:7 - the males Deuteronomy 28:29 - thou shalt be Deuteronomy 28:31 - ox Joshua 23:15 - so shall Judges 2:11 - did evil Judges 4:1 - did evil Judges 10:6 - did evil Judges 13:1 - did 1 Samuel 8:8 - General 1 Kings 8:33 - because they have 1 Chronicles 1:32 - Midian Ezra 5:12 - he gave Nehemiah 9:28 - did evil again Psalms 106:41 - he gave Isaiah 2:10 - Enter Isaiah 9:4 - as in the day Isaiah 65:21 - General Hebrews 11:32 - Gedeon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord,.... 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Midian - See Genesis 25:2 note. They were remarkable not only for the vast number of their cattle Judges 6:5; Numbers 31:32-39, but also for their great wealth in gold and other metal ornaments, showing their connection with a gold country. (Compare Numbers 31:22, Numbers 31:50-54, with Judges 8:24 :26.) At this time they were allies of the Amalekites and of the Arabian tribes called collectively “the children of the East” Judges 6:3. They seem to have extended their settlements to the east of Jordan, and to have belonged to the larger section of Arabs called Ishmaelites Judges 8:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VI

The Israelites again do evil, and are delivered into the hands

of the Midianites, by whom they are oppressed seven years,

1, 2.

Different tribes spoil their harvests, and take away their

cattle, 3-5.

They cry unto the Lord, and he sends them a prophet to reprehend

and instruct them, 6-10.

An angel appears unto Gideon, and gives him commission to

deliver Israel, and works several miracles, to prove that

he is Divinely appointed to this work, 11-23.

Gideon builds an altar to the Lord, under the name of

Jehovah-shalom; and throws down the altar of Baal, 24-27.

His townsmen conspire against him; he expostulates with them,

and they are pacified, 28-32.

The Midianites and Amalekites gather together against Israel;

Gideon summons Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, who

join his standard, 33-35.

The miracle of the fleece of wool, 36-40.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI

Verse Judges 6:1. Delivered them unto the hand of Midian — The Midianites were among the most ancient and inveterate of the enemies of Israel. They joined with the Moabites to seduce them to idolatry, and were nearly extirpated by them; Numbers 31:1-12. The Midianites dwelt on the eastern borders of the Dead Sea, and their capital was Arnon.