Richter 6:4

Schlachter Bibel

und lagerten sich wider sie und verderbten das Gewächs des Landes bis hin gen Gaza und ließen keine Lebensmittel übrig in Israel, auch keine Schafe, Ochsen und Esel;

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und sie lagerten sich wider sie und verdarben den Ertrag des Landes bis nach Gasa hin; und sie lie�en keine Lebensmittel in Israel �brig, weder Kleinvieh, noch Rind, noch Esel.

Lutherbible (1912)
und lagerten sich wider sie und verderbten das Gewächs auf dem Lande bis hinan gen Gaza und ließen nichts übrig von Nahrung in Israel, weder Schafe noch Ochsen noch Esel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

destroyed: Leviticus 26:16, Deuteronomy 28:30, Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:51, Micah 6:15

till thou come: The Midianites dwelt beyond the eastern borders of the land of Canaan, east of the Dead Sea, and Gaza was on the Mediterranean, on the west, so that these invaders ravaged the whole breadth of the land. Genesis 10:19, Genesis 13:10

left no: Proverbs 28:3, Jeremiah 49:9, Jeremiah 49:10, Obadiah 1:5

sheep: or, goat

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:1 - rob the Jeremiah 5:17 - And they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they encamped against them,.... Formed a camp, from whence they sent out parties to plunder the people; or

"they were fixing their tents among them,''

as the Vulgate Latin version; and so the Targum,

"they dwelt by them,''

or fixed their habitations by them; for they seem not to have come as a regular army, but as a sort of banditti to pillage, and plunder, and destroy the fruits of the earth; and the Midianites and Arabians dwelt in tents chiefly:

and destroyed the increase of the earth; the corn and grass before they were well ripe, and fit to cut down; this they did, and gave it to their cattle, and the rest they carried off:

till thou come unto Gaza; a principality of the Philistines, which lay in the western part of Canaan, on the shore of the Mediterranean sea; so that as these people came out of the east, and entered the eastern part, they went through the whole land from east to west, cutting down all the fruits of the earth for forage for their cattle:

and left no sustenance for Israel; nothing to support life with, cutting down their corn and their grass, their vines and olives, so that they had nothing to live upon:

neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass; not anything for those creatures to live upon, nor did not leave any of them, but carried them all away.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gaza indicates the extreme point south to which they spread their devastations, crossing the Jordan near Bethshan (Scythopolls), and entering by the valley of Jezreel, and sweeping along the whole of the maritime plain or Shephelah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:4. Encamped against them — Wandering hordes of Midianites, Amalekites, and Ishmaelites came, in the times of harvest and autumn, and carried away their crops, their fruit, and their cattle. And they appear to have come early, encamped in the plains, and watched the crops till they were ready to be carried off. This is frequently the case even to the present day.

Till thou come unto Gaza — That is, the whole breadth of the land, from Jordan to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Thus the whole land was ravaged, and the inhabitants deprived of the necessaries of life.