³³ Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

¹⁶ And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel.

³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

³⁵ Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

³⁶ As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

³⁷ But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

³⁸ For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers,

³⁹ Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

¹⁰ Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

¹⁰ All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

¹¹ They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

¹² They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

² When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

³ Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

¹⁹ And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.

¹ Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

⁴⁵ And after a very little time, the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went in his carriage to Jezreel.

¹⁰ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

¹¹ And Gideon went up by the way used by the people living in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and made an attack on the army when they had no thought of danger.

²⁴ Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.

¹⁸ And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem

¹⁶ Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.