Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Midianite? Here are some examples.
Examples from Classical Literature
Round the outside of the wall, therefore, like the Midianite in the rather comical hymn, did Clare prowl and prowl.
The Midianite Oppression was the most severe, thus far, in the history of the judges.
With three hundred chosen men Gideon made a night attack upon the Midianite host.
The words are not the words of a Midianite at all, but such as a Jew would be more apt to utter.
This young upstart Gideon would soon be sorry enough when he butted his head against the experienced Midianite leaders.
But Midianite tribes had also pushed northwards and mingled with the descendants of Ishmael.
The Midianite Baal accompanied the Israelites into the wilderness, and that worship was never thoroughly eradicated.
Mendenhall continues in this paragraph with reference to Moses's Cushite wife, though elsewhere Zipporah is referred to as a Midianite.
Allegorically, his wife, the daughter of the Midianite priest, and his uncircumcised son become the symbols of his attachment to Midian.
He sends representatives to Balaam, a Midianite diviner, inviting him to come to Moab, curse the Israelites, and thereby help to defeat them.
A little more and it will sink under the wave of the Midianite invasion.
After the battle he ordered his victorious army to rape the Midianite women.
Moses flees Egypt after killing an Egyptian and finds refuge in Midian where he marries Tzipporah, the daughter of the Midianite priest Reuel, also referred to as Jethro.
