Midian oppresses Israel
For seven years Midianite and Amalekite raiders swarmed over the land like locusts at harvest time, driving Israel into caves.
The raiders came on camels in numbers too great to count and stripped the land bare. When Israel cried out, God first sent a prophet to remind them why this was happening.
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Dating notes
7 years (Judges 6:1). Ussher overlaps some oppressions and rest periods, counting each rest from the previous deliverance, so that the judges fit the 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1.