The invaders had the edge in manpower: they could not be numbered. But they also had the edge in military hardware: they had camels. These raiders swept across the land, laying waste the entire land, reducing Israel to an animal-like existence in caves, without any livestock of their own.
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5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number both they and their camels could not be counted so that they laid waste the land as they came in.