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Judges 6:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

and they oppressed Israel.  Because of Midian, the Israelites made hiding places  for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

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The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.


The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.


Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.


They let themselves be seen by the Philistine garrison, and the Philistines said, ‘Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they’ve been hiding! ’


I will turn  against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.


Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east  came and attacked them.


Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men he had struck down was a large one  that King Asa had made in the encounter with King Baasha of Israel.  Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.


Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs, residents of Moab! Be like a dove that nests inside the mouth of a cave.


They shattered and crushed the Israelites that year, and for eighteen years they did the same to all the Israelites who were on the other side of the Jordan  in the land of the Amorites  in Gilead.


The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was greatly oppressed,


They are living on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.





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