Numbers 31:10
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New International Version (©2011)
They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,

International Standard Version (©2012)
They burned every town where they had lived and incinerated all of their encampments.

NET Bible (©2006)
They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They burned all the cities where the Midianites lived and all their settlements.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their encampments, with fire.

American King James Version
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelled, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

American Standard Version
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.

Darby Bible Translation
and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.

English Revised Version
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

World English Bible
All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

Young's Literal Translation
and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:7-12 The Israelites slew the Kings of Midian. They slew Balaam. God's overruling providence brought him thither, and their just vengeance found him. Had he himself rightly believed what he had said of the happy state of Israel, he would not have thus herded with the enemies of Israel. The Midianites' wicked wiles were Balaam's projects: it was just that he should perish with them, Ho 4:5. They took the women and children captives. They burnt their cities and castles, and returned to the camp.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - Their goodly castles. טִירֹתם. Septuagint, ἐπαύλεις. This word, which occurs only here and in Genesis 25:16, no doubt signifies the pastoral villages, constructed partly of rude stone walls, partly of goats-hair cloth, which the nomadic tribes of that country have used from time immemorial. Probably these were the proper habitations of the Midianites; the "cities" would have belonged to the previous inhabitants of the land.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, &c. ) So far as they went into the country, which, perhaps, might not be the whole land of Midian:

and all their goodly castles with fire; which were either the palaces of their princes and nobles, or such like great personages; or they were fortified places, for the security of their cities and country: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan interpret them of their houses of worship, their temples, and their altars.

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Vengeance on Midian
…9And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. 10And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelled, and all their goodly castles, with fire. 11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. …

Genesis 25:16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.
Numbers 31:9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.
Numbers 31:11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals,