Numbers 31:4
 Numbers 31:4 
New International Version (©2011)
Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."

New Living Translation (©2007)
From each tribe of Israel, send 1,000 men into battle."

English Standard Version (©2001)
You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Send 1,000 men to war from each Israelite tribe."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Send 1,000 men to war from every tribe throughout all of Israel."

NET Bible (©2006)
You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Send 1,000 men from each of the tribes of Israel."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war.

American King James Version
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war.

American Standard Version
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

Darby Bible Translation
Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

English Revised Version
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

Webster's Bible Translation
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

World English Bible
Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."

Young's Literal Translation
a thousand for a tribe -- a thousand for a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel -- ye do send to the host.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:1-6 All who, without commission from God, dare to execute private revenge, and who, from ambition, covetousness, or resentment, wage war and desolate kingdoms, must one day answer for it. But if God, instead of sending an earthquake, a pestilence, or a famine, be pleased to authorize and command any people to avenge his cause, such a commission surely is just and right. The Israelites could show such a commission, though no persons now can do so. Their wars were begun and carried on expressly by Divine direction, and they were enabled to conquer by miracles. Unless it can be proved that the wicked Canaanites did not deserve their doom, objectors only prove their dislike to God, and their love to his enemies. Man makes light of the evil of sin, but God abhors it. This explains the terrible executions of the nations which had filled the measure of their sins.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Of every tribe a thousand,.... So that the whole number of those that were armed were 12,000 as after given:

throughout all the tribes of Israel; this is observed, as Jarchi thinks, to comprehend the tribe of Levi, which in some cases was left out of the account:

shall ye send to the war; to fight with Midian.


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Vengeance on Midian
3And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves to the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian. 4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war. 5So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. …

Numbers 31:3 So Moses said to the people, "Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the LORD's vengeance on them.
Numbers 31:5 So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.