Numbers 31:4 Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

Cross References

Numbers 31:3
And 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.

Numbers 31:5
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. Arm some of yourselves—This order was issued but a short time before the death of Moses. The announcement to him of that approaching event [Nu 31:2] seems to have accelerated, rather than retarded, his warlike preparations.