Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

And Israel was greatly impoverished, because of the Midianites,…. Were reduced very low, brought into famishing circumstances through the Midianites thus destroying the fruits of the earth year after year:

and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord; which they should have done at first, instead of going into dens and caves; however, better late than not at all; they cried, not to the idols they had served, being sensible they could not help them, though so as to worship them; but to Jehovah the God of the whole earth, and who was in a special sense their God, though they had forsaken him.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(6) Impoverished.The LXX. render it, was reduced to pauperism. The word implies flaccidity and helplessness, as of a door hanging loose on its hinges, or a sere leaf shaking on a tree.

Cried unto the Lord.See Jdg. 3:9; Jdg. 3:15; Jdg. 4:3; Psa. 107:13; Hos. 5:15.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

6. Israel was greatly impoverished Driven from their pastures and robbed of their flocks, (Jdg 6:4,) what else could be the result? The oppression of these children of the East may be inferred from the exacting habits of their modern Bedouin descendants, whose chiefs will extort tribute upon tribute from their own subjects until they become utterly impoverished and ruined.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Here is the first cry of grace which we meet with in the Lord’s heritage under all their sufferings? Seven whole years of misery before that one cry to the Lord for deliverance is heard. No doubt Israel did as you and I have done under our sorrows, that is, tried every resource but the right, and every effort of human policy and human contrivance before application is made to God himself. And never would the heart of either be brought to God, unless that God by his grace in the heart had inclined the sinner to seek him. Doth the Reader know this? Is he most solemnly convinced of it. If not: oh! that the Holy Ghost may be his teacher! 1Jn 4:19 .

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Jdg 6:6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

Ver. 6. Cried unto the Lord. ] They fled to the “Rock of Ages, the Lord Jehovah.” Isa 26:4 When their other refuges failed them, they were a “poor and afflicted people,” and then “they trusted in God,” Zep 3:12 they confessed their sins, repented of their wicked ways, and implored the divine help, putting themselves into the hands of justice in hope of mercy.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

impoverished: Psa 106:43, *marg. Jer 5:17, Mal 1:4

cried: Jdg 3:9, Jdg 3:15, Psa 50:15, Psa 78:34, Psa 106:44, Isa 26:16, Hos 5:15

Reciprocal: 2Ki 13:4 – Jehoahaz Neh 9:27 – in the time Psa 22:5 – cried Psa 107:13 – General Psa 144:14 – no breaking in

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

6:6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the {c} children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

(c) This is the purpose of God’s punishments, to call his to repentance, that they may seek help from him.

Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes