5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents;
they would come like locusts in number
- both they and their camels could not be counted -
so that they laid waste the land as they came in.
6 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian.
And the people of Israel cried out for help to the Lord.
“The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand,
lest Israel boast over me,
saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people,
saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’”
Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.
