For they came up with their cattle, and their tents,.... Brought their flocks and their herds with them, to eat up the increase of the earth, and their tents, which they pitched and removed from place to place, for the convenience of feeding their cattle, and while they cut down the fruit of the earth everywhere, which serves to confirm the sense of the Targum and Vulgate Latin version of Jud 6:5and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; or "as locusts" , they were like them for their number, and for devouring all they came to:and their camels were without number; which they brought with them, to load and carry off their plunder they could not eat.
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Judges 6:5
Judges 6:5
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as grasshoppers: Judges 7:12, Judges 8:10; Jeremiah 46:23
their camels: Judges 8:21; 1 Samuel 30:17; Isaiah 60:6; Jeremiah 49:29, Jeremiah 49:32
to destroy: Psalms 83:4-12