Midian

Where the Bible names it

1. Genesis 36:35

   When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

2. Genesis 37:28

   So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

3. Genesis 37:36

   Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

4. Exodus 2:15

   When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

5. Exodus 2:16

   Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

6. Exodus 3:1

   Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

7. Exodus 4:19

   Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”

8. Exodus 18:1

   Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

9. Numbers 10:29

   Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

10. Numbers 22:4

    So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,

11. Numbers 22:7

    The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.

12. Numbers 25:6

    Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

13. Numbers 25:14

    The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.

14. Numbers 25:15

    And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.

15. Numbers 25:17

    “Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.

16. Numbers 25:18

    For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”

17. Numbers 31:2

    “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

18. Numbers 31:3

    So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.

19. Numbers 31:7

    Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

20. Numbers 31:8

    Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

21. Numbers 31:9

    The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

22. Joshua 13:21

    all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

23. Judges 6:1

    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

24. Judges 6:2

    and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

25. Judges 6:3

    Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

26. Judges 6:6

    Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.

27. Judges 6:7

    Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

28. Judges 6:11

    Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

29. Judges 6:13

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

30. Judges 6:14

    The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”

31. Judges 6:16

    “Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”

32. Judges 6:33

    Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

33. Judges 7:1

    Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

34. Judges 7:2

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

35. Judges 7:7

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”

36. Judges 7:8

    So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

37. Judges 7:12

    Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.

38. Judges 7:13

    And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

39. Judges 7:14

    His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”

40. Judges 7:15

    When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”