Judges 6:7
5 For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
6 Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,
8 He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
9 I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,
- KJV
- And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
- WEB
- When the children of Israel cried to the LORD because of Midian,
- ASV
- And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah because of Midian,
- DARBY
- And it came to pass when the children of Israel cried to Jehovah because of Midian,
- BLB
- And it came to pass, when the sons of Israel cried out to YHWH on account of the Midianite,
- ÅB
- Og da Israels barn ropte til Herren for midianittenes skyld,
- OTB
- Da israelittene ropte til Herren på grunn av Midjans undertrykkelse,
- B1930
- Og da Israels barn ropte til Herren for midianittenes skyld,