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Whenever Israel planted crops, Midian and Amalek and the people of the East[a] would go up against Israel. They would set up camp against them and ruin the crops all the way to Gaza, so there was no source of livelihood left in Israel—not even a sheep, an ox, or a donkey. When the Midianites would invade with their herds of cattle and their tents, they were as numerous as locusts, so it was impossible to count them and their camels. This is how they came up against the land to ruin it.

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  1. Judges 6:3 This term usually refers to nomadic or semi-nomadic people.