Judges 8:18-9:21
Luke 23:44-24:12
Psalm 99:1-9
Proverbs 14:9-10
Question of the day: Hadn't the Israelites already defeated the Midianites?
Yes, in Numbers 31 the Bible tells us that Moses sent the Israelites army against the Midianites and that they "killed every man" (vs. 7). Among the women and children who were captured, the boys were killed as were each woman "who has slept with a man" (vs. 17). The Midianites nation was destroyed.
The problem was that the Midianites were a nomadic people who normally traveled in small bands with their livestock in the dry season and then gathered into large bands during the lambing or wet season. Either way, there were likely Midianites who were elsewhere with their people at the time of this battle. After the Israelites moved on, these wayward nomadic bands recreated and repopulated the Midian nation
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