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NOW when Barak and Deborah were dead, whose deaths happened about
the same time, afterwards the Midianites called the Amalekites and Arabians
to their assistance, and made war against the Israelites, and were too
hard for those that fought against them; and when they had burnt the fruits
of the earth, they carried off the prey. Now when they had done this for
three years, the multitude of the Israelites retired to the mountains,
and forsook the plain country. They also made themselves hollows under
ground, and caverns, and preserved therein whatsoever had escaped their
enemies; for the Midianites made expeditions in harvest-time, but permitted
them to plough the land in winter, that so, when the others had taken the
pains, they might have fruits for them to carry away. Indeed, there ensued
a famine and a scarcity of food; upon which they betook themselves to their
supplications to God, and besought him to save them.
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