Describes a time when Israel was ruled by judges and the cycle of turning away from God, facing trouble, and then returning to Him.
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
So when Israel planted their seeds, the people from Midian, Amalek, and the eastern tribes arrived to attack them.