Old Testament Warriors by Simon Elliott

Author:Simon Elliott [Elliott, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / Ancient
ISBN: 9781612009544
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Midianite Arabs. (James Hamilton)

The final engagement from the Book of Judges considered here is Gideon’s defeat of the Midianite Arabs. For a seven-year period the Hebrew tribes based in eastern Canaan had been suffering at the hands of their desert-living neighbours. This may indicate a climate issue once again, driving the Midianites into fertile Canaan more frequently. The lack of any central authority among the Hebrew tribes also added to the problem, with at first no coordinated response. The description in the Book of Judges shows the Israelites were facing a serious issue (6.34–35):

… the hand of Mid’ian prevailed over Israel; and because of Med’ian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves and the strongholds. For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Mid’ianites and the Amel’ekites (their allies) and the people of the east would come up and attack them; they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighbourhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep or ox or ass. For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for number; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in. And Israel was bought very low by Med’ian.

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