4 Then they would encamp against them and ^adestroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor ^bdonkey.  ‡

5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were¹ without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it.  ‡

7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord because of the Midianites,

8 that the Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought you up from Egypt and brought you out of the ^ahouse of bondage;  ‡