“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;”
For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them — The pattern of Midianite-Amalekite raiding ('whenever the Israelites put in seed... would come up against them') indicates systematic destruction of Israel's agricultural production, creating starvation pressure and economic desperation.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!