Genesis 25:2

25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Numbers 25:17-18

25:17 “Bring trouble ¹  to the Midianites, and destroy them, 25:18 because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived ²  you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, ³  their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”

Habakkuk 3:7

3:7 I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; ⁴ 

the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking. ⁵ 

[25:17]  ¹ tn The form is the infinitive absolute used in place of a verb here; it clearly is meant to be an instruction for Israel. The idea is that of causing trouble, harassing, vexing Midian. The verb is repeated as the active participle in the line, and so the punishment is talionic.

[25:18]  ² tn This is the same word as that translated “treachery.”

[25:18]  ³ sn Cozbi’s father, Zur, was one of five Midianite kings who eventually succumbed to Israel (Num 31:8). When the text gives the name and family of a woman, it is asserting that she is important, at least for social reasons, among her people.

[3:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “under trouble I saw the tents of Cushan.”

[3:7]  ⁵ tn R. D. Patterson takes תַּחַת אֲוֶן (takhat ’aven) in the first line as a place name, “Tahath-Aven.” (Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah [WEC], 237.) In this case one may translate the verse as a tricolon: “I look at Tahath-Aven. The tents of Cushan are shaking, the tent curtains of the land of Midian.”