士师记 8:18-21

This event, in the death of those princes, forms a song of praise, and a subject of prayer, in the after ages of the church. See Psalms 83:11 . But let the Reader remark, in their destruction, the sure ruin of all the church ' s foes; for this is the great improvement to be made of this history. It was for the church's sake the Lord came forth to the slaughter of Midian, with which, like Amalek, the Lord! hath declared war forever. Exodus 17:16 .