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In the wilderness, Beth–arabah, Middin , and Secacah ,

And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel : and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian .

Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod : so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh , in the valley.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

And the name of the Midianite woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur ; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian .

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian :

And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

And he said unto the men of Succoth , Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian .

And they slew the kings of Midian , beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem , and Zur , and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian : Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash , a man of Israel : for into his hand hath God delivered Midian , and all the host.

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses . But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian : and he sat down by a well.

And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites , and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it is there to this day.

And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,

So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

And committing the decision to the Lord of the world, and exhorting them that were with him to contend nobly even to death for laws, temple, city, country, commonwealth, he pitched his camp by Modin.

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah , and from Eshtaol , to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim , to the house of Micah , they lodged there.

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel .

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

And there was a man of mount Ephraim , whose name was Micah .