Numbers 31:5
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New International Version (©2011)
So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So they chose 1,000 men from each tribe of Israel, a total of 12,000 men armed for battle.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So 1,000 were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands in Israel--12,000 equipped for war.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So 1,000 men from every tribe—12,000 from the thousands of Israel—were mustered and equipped for war.

NET Bible (©2006)
So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So 1,000 men from each tribe were supplied from the divisions of Israel-12,000 men ready for war.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

American King James Version
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

American Standard Version
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.

Darby Bible Translation
And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

English Revised Version
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Webster's Bible Translation
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

World English Bible
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Young's Literal Translation
And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of 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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - There were delivered, or "levied." יִמָּסְרוּ. Septuagint, ἐξηρίθμησαν The Hebrew word is only used here and in verse 16 (see note there), and in these two places not in the same sense. The context, however, leaves little or no doubt as to the meaning which it must bear.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So they were delivered out of the thousands of Israel,.... Several thousands very probably offered themselves voluntarily to go to the war, or however were summoned together on this account, and out of them the following number was delivered of picked and chosen men:

a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war; which was but a small number to go against so considerable a nation and people; but this was done to show that the war was of the Lord, he would fight the battle, and give them victory, it being the same to him to do it with few as with many; and to encourage the people of Israel to believe the Lord would give them success against their many and powerful enemies in the land of Canaan, on the borders of which they now were.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. there were delivered—that is, drafted, chosen, an equal amount from each tribe, to prevent the outbreak of mutual jealousy or strife. Considering the numerical force of the enemy, this was a small quota to furnish. But the design was to exercise their faith and animate them to the approaching invasion of Canaan.

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Vengeance on 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. 6And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand. …

Numbers 31:4 Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."
Numbers 31:6 Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.