Judges 6:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ They would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, nor any sheep or ox or donkey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They would encamp against them and destroy the crops as far as Gaza and leave no nourishment for Israel, and no ox or sheep or donkey.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

Common English Bible

⁴ They would set up camp against the Israelites and destroy the land’s crops as far as Gaza, leaving nothing to keep Israel alive, not even sheep, oxen, or donkeys.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ and pitching their tents among them, they laid waste to all that was planted, as far as the entrance to Gaza. And they left behind nothing at all to sustain life in Israel, neither sheep, nor oxen, nor donkeys.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And pitching their tents among them, wasted all things as they were in the blade even to the entrance of Gaza. And they left nothing at all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen, nor asses.

Judges 6:4 Cross References

Genesis 10:19

And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked about him and saw that the plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor person who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

Jeremiah 5:17

They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall destroy with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Leviticus 26:16

I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Obadiah 1:5

If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night —how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

Micah 6:15

You shall sow but not reap; you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed

Deuteronomy 28:51

It shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, leaving you neither grain, wine, and oil nor the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, until it has made you perish.

Judges 6:3

For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.