Verse 3
3. So it was Constantly for the seven years. Judges 6:3-6 picture the ordinary state of the land during all this Midianite oppression.
The Amalekites Also a nomadic race, who had dwindled into a band of robbers, and were ready to join with any stronger tribe in a predatory adventure. See on Judges 3:13, and compare Genesis 14:7; Exodus 17:8.
Children of the east A general name applied indiscriminately to all the tribes that occupied the deserts east of Palestine. Compare Judges 8:10.
The east kedem was a term naturally and appropriately given by the early Israelites to the vast range of desert country that lay before them toward the rising sun, as they gazed from the hills on the east of the Jordan.
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