John Gill's Exposition on Judges 6:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And so it was, when Israel had sown , etc.] 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 out of their lurking holes, and manured their land, and sowed it: that the Midianites came up ; into the land of Canaan, from the other side Jordan, where their country lay, and which it seems lay lower than the land of Israel: and the Amalekites, and the children of the east : the former were implacable enemies of Israel, and on every occasion would join other nations in oppressing them; and the children of the east were Arabians, as Josephus f122 expressly affirms: even they came up against them ; all these three sorts of people in a confederacy.

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