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Then the sons of Israel ^(C1)did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD handed them over to ^(C2)Midian for seven years.

The ^(F1)power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves ^(C1)the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

For whenever Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the ^(F1)people of the east and ^(F2)march against them.

So they would camp against them and ^(C1)destroy the produce of the earth ^(F1)as far as Gaza, and ^(C2)leave no sustenance in Israel, nor a sheep, ox, or donkey.

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in ^(C1)like locusts in number, and both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to ruin it.

So Israel was brought ^(C1)very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD.

Now it came about, when the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of Midian,

that the LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and ^(C1)he said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: 'It was I who brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of ^(F1)slavery.

'And I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians, and from the hands of all your oppressors, and I drove them out from you and gave you their land,

and I said to you, "I am the LORD your God; you ^(C1)shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live." But you have not ^(F1)obeyed Me.'"