Midianites
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the Midianites · al-Midyāniyyūn · المديانيون
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Biblical people cited within Cajetan's quoted opinion as having attacked the Israelites.
but it was because the heathen refused them the right of innocent passage, or attacked them, as the Midianites did;
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A north-Arabian people counted among the neighbours of the Phoenicians who worshipped Baal as greatest of their idols.
In our view it is Hebrew or Phoenician, its original being “Habaʻl” הבעל, which is the name of the greatest of the idols of the Phoenicians or the Canaanites and of those neighbouring them among the nations of Syria, such as the Moabites, the Midianites, the Babylonians and the Libyans.
Common Sense
Biblical people who oppressed the Israelites and were defeated by Gideon
The children of Israel being oppressed by the Midianites, Gideon marched against them with a small army, and victory thro' the divine interposition decided in his favour.