Judges 6:1
And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fecerunt autem filii Israël malum in conspectu Domini : qui tradidit illos in manu Madian septem annis,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἐποίησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραήλ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτοὺς Κύριος ἐν χειρὶ Μαδιὰμ ἑπτὰ ἔτη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּעֲשׂ֧וּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּתְּנֵ֧ם יְהוָ֛ה בְּיַד מִדְיָ֖ן שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Madian. This nation had formerly been almost extirpated by Moses, Numbers xxxi. 7, &c. (Haydock)
But they had re-established themselves, and dwelt in the neighbourhood of the Moabites, whom they had assisted. They now made a league with Amalec, and other eastern nations, (Calmet) in order to revenge themselves upon the Israelites. (Haydock)
Madian was a descendant of Abraham by Cetura, Genesis xxv. 2. The shortness of the servitude, which the Israelites had to suffer from them, was compensated by its severity. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.