Judges 6:3-7
Judges 6:3
For whenever Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the people of the east and march against them.
Judges 6:4
So they would camp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, nor a sheep, ox, or donkey.
Judges 6:5
For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts in number, and both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to ruin it.
Judges 6:6
So Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord.
Judges 6:7
Now it came about, when the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of Midian,