Judges 7:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts, and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand on the seashore for multitude.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

Common English Bible

¹² The Midianites, Amalekites, and other easterners were spread across the valley like a swarm of locusts; their camels were too many to count, like the grains of sand on the seashore.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But Midian, and Amalek, and all the eastern peoples lay spread out in the valley, like a multitude of locusts. Their camels, too, were innumerable, like the sand that lies on the shore of the sea.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts. Their camels also were innumerable as the sand that lieth on the sea-shore.

Judges 7:12 Cross References

1 Kings 20:27

After the Israelites had been mustered and provisioned, they went out to engage them; the people of Israel encamped opposite them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the country.

1 Kings 4:30

so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Psalm 3:1

O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

Psalm 33:16

A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.

Jeremiah 46:23

They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.

Joshua 11:4

They came out, with all their troops, a great army, in number like the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

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.

Judges 6:33

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came together, and they crossed over and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.

Judges 6:5

For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted, so they wasted the land as they came in.

Judges 7:13

When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling a dream to his comrade, and he said, “I had a dream, and in it a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell; it turned upside down, and the tent collapsed.”

Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the east, for one hundred twenty thousand men bearing arms had fallen.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines mustered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 30:17

David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not one of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.