Judges 6:3
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
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Gill's Exposition
And so it was, when Israel had sown,.... Their land, and it was grown up, and near being ripe, or quite; for the Midianites gave them no disturbance in the winter, and during seedtime, when they came…
We have here, I. Israel's sin renewed: They did evil in the sight of the Lord, Jdg 6:1. The burnt child dreads the fire; yet this perverse unthinking people, that had so often smarted sorely for their…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the Amalekites Hereditary foes of Israel, Exo 17:8 ff.; see on Jdg 3:13. The children of the Eastwere Bedouin from the desert E. of Moab and Ammon; see Jer 49:28; Eze 25:4; Eze 25:10. These tribes…
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