And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
Avenge
Numbers 31:3 And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves to …
Numbers 25:17,18 Vex the Midianites, and smite them…
Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in …
Judges 16:24,28-30 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, …
Psalm 94:1-3 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, …
Isaiah 1:24 Therefore said the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, …
Nahum 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is …
Luke 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written …
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: …
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that …
1 Thessalonians 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because …
Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, …
Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true…
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …
the Midianites
Numbers 25:6,14-18 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his …
Genesis 25:1-4 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah…
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew …
gathered
Numbers 27:13 And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, …
Genesis 15:15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in …
Genesis 25:8,17 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old …
Judges 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and …
Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of …
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
arm some
Exodus 17:9-13 And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek…
avenge the Lord. It was God's quarrel, not their own, that they were now to take up. These people were idolaters, and had seduced the Israelites to practise the same abominations. Idolatry is an offence against God; and the civil power has no authority to meddle with what belongs to him, without especial directions, certified, as in this case, in the most unequivocal manner. Private revenge, ambition, or avarice were to have no place in this business: Jehovah is to be avenged; and through Him, the children of Israel, because they were nearly ruined by their idolatries. If Jehovah, instead of punishing sinners by earthquakes, pestilence, or famine,is please expressly to command any person or people to avenge his cause, this commission justified, nay sanctifies, war, massacre, or devastation. Though none at present shew such a commission, yet the Israelites could; and it is therefore absurd to censure Moses, Joshua, and Israel, for the dreadful slaughter made by them. God himself passed sentence of condemnation, and employed them merely as ministers of his vengeance; and unless it could be proved that the criminals did not deserve their doom, or that God had no right to punish his rebellious creatures, such objectors only shew their enmity to God by becoming the unsolicited advocates of his enemies.
Numbers 25:11,13 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned …
Exodus 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war …
Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword on you, that shall avenge the quarrel of …
Judges 5:2,23 Praise you the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly …
2 Kings 9:7 And you shall smite the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge …
2 Kings 10:30 And the LORD said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing …
Jeremiah 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, …
Jeremiah 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, …
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
And 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.
a thousand. Twelve thousand in all-a small number in proportion to all Israel, or to the forces which they encounter. As they were under the conduct of captains of thousands and hundreds, they probably had no general; for Phinehas seems to have accompanied them simply to take charge of `the holy instruments;' probably the ark and silver trumpets. Phinehas
Numbers 25:7-13 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, …
the holy instruments
Numbers 14:44 But they presumed to go up to the hill top: nevertheless the ark …
Numbers 33:20-22 And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah…
Exodus 25:9 According to all that I show you, after the pattern of the tabernacle, …
Joshua 6:4-6,13-15 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' …
1 Samuel 4:4,5,17 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the …
1 Samuel 14:18 And Saul said to Ahiah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of …
1 Samuel 23:9 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him; …
2 Samuel 11:11 And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in …
to blow
Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets…
2 Chronicles 13:12-15 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests …
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
all
Deuteronomy 20:13,14 And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you …
Judges 21:11 And this is the thing that you shall do, You shall utterly destroy …
1 Samuel 27:9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and …
1 Kings 11:15,16 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain …
the male
Judges 6:1,2,33 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and …
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
the kings
Numbers 22:4 And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick …
Joshua 13:21,22 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king …
Zur
Numbers 25:15,18 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the …
Balaam
Numbers 22:10 And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has …
Numbers 24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak …
Joshua 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of …
Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is …
Psalm 10:2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken …
1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …
2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following …
Jude 1:11 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily …
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there them …
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked …
And 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.
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
wroth
Numbers 12:3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were on …
Exodus 32:19,22 And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he …
Leviticus 10:16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, …
1 Samuel 15:13,14 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed be you of …
1 Kings 20:42 And he said to him, Thus said the LORD, Because you have let go out …
2 Kings 13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, You should have …
Ephesians 4:26 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath:
battle. Heb. host of war
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
Deuteronomy 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the …
Deuteronomy 20:13,16-18 And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you …
Joshua 6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and …
Joshua 8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, …
Joshua 10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and …
Joshua 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of …
1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, …
Psalm 137:8,9 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, …
Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed …
Ezekiel 9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and …
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
kill every male. The sword of war should spare women and children, as incapable of resisting; but the sword of justice knows no distinction, except that of guilty or not guilty, or more or less guilty. This was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the greatest criminals; and it may safely be said, that their lives were forfeited by their personal transgressions. With respect to the execution of the male infants, who cannot be supposed to have been guilty, God, the author and supporter of life, who has a right to dispose of it when and how he thinks proper, commanded it; and 'shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?'
Judges 21:11,12 And this is the thing that you shall do, You shall utterly destroy …
him. Heb. a male
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
keep alive for yourselves. It has been groundlessly asserted, that Moses here authorised the Israelites to make concubines of the whole number of female children; and an insidious objection against his writings has been grounded upon this monstrous supposition. But the whole tenor of the law, and especially a stature recorded in De.
Numbers 21:10-14 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth…
Leviticus 25:44 Both your slaves, and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall …
Deuteronomy 20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that …
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your …
2 Chronicles 28:8-10 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers …
Isaiah 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place…
And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
abide
Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through …
Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine …
Malachi 2:2,3 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give …
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. but he that comes …
1 Corinthians 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare …
1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold …
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is …
Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be …
it shall be purified
Numbers 8:7 And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of …
Numbers 19:9,17 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, …
ye shall make
Leviticus 11:32 And on whatever any of them, when they are dead, does fall, it shall …
Leviticus 15:17 And every garment, and every skin, where on is the seed of copulation, …
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Titus 3:5,6 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to …
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not …
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
that was taken. Heb. of the captivity
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
levy
Genesis 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which has delivered your enemies …
Joshua 6:19,24 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are …
2 Samuel 8:11,12 Which also king David did dedicate to the LORD, with the silver and …
1 Chronicles 18:11 Them also king David dedicated to the LORD, with the silver and the …
1 Chronicles 26:26,27 Which Shelomith and his brothers were over all the treasures of the …
Proverbs 3:9,10 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of …
Isaiah 18:7 In that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts of …
Isaiah 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it …
Isaiah 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, …
Matthew 22:21 They say to him, Caesar's. Then said he to them, Render therefore …
one soul
Numbers 31:30,47 And of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one portion …
Numbers 18:26 Thus speak to the Levites, and say to them…
Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
one portion
Numbers 31:42-47 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the …
flocks, or goats. and give
Numbers 31:28 And levy a tribute to the Lord of the men of war which went out to …
Numbers 18:24-28 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an …
1 Corinthians 9:13,14 Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of …
keep the
Numbers 3:7,8,25,31,36 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation …
Numbers 18:1-5,23 And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house …
1 Chronicles 9:27-29 And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge …
1 Chronicles 23:32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, …
1 Chronicles 26:20-27 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of …
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …
1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Colossians 4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received …
Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for …
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
the booty. It appears from the enumeration here, that the Israelites, in this war with the Midianites, took
Sheep .....
Asses........61,000
To soldiers.....
Persons......
It does not appear that a single ox, sheep, or ass, was required by Moses as his portion; or that there was any given to him by the people; and though he had a family as well as others, yet no provision was made for them above the common lot of Levites!
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
And threescore and one thousand asses,
And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Eleazar
Numbers 31:29-31 Take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for an …
Numbers 18:8,19 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold…
Matthew 10:10 Nor money for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor …
1 Corinthians 9:10-14 Or said he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, …
Galatians 6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches …
1 Timothy 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, …
Hebrews 7:4-6,9-12 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham …
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
And thirty and six thousand beeves,
And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
And sixteen thousand persons;)
Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
the Levites
Numbers 18:21-25 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel …
Deuteronomy 12:17-19 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your …
Luke 10:1-8 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent …
1 Thessalonians 5:12,13 And we beseech you, brothers, to know them which labor among you, …
kept the charge
Numbers 31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one portion …
Psalm 134:1 Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, which by …
Isaiah 56:10,11 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb …
And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
therefore brought. The officers of the army having mustered their men, found they had not lost a man in the contest with Midian! Penetrated with gratitude for this most remarkable interposition of Providence in their favour, they now offer to Jehovah the golden jewels which they had found among the spoil, to the amount of
Psalm 107:15,21,22 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful …
Psalm 116:12,17 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits toward me…
gotten. Heb. found. an atonement
Exodus 30:12,15,16 When you take the sum of the children of Israel after their number, …
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to …
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
offering. Heb.. heave-offering
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
a memorial
Numbers 16:40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, which …
Exodus 30:16 And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel…
Joshua 4:7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off …
Psalm 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and …
Psalm 103:1,2 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name…
Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your …
Psalm 145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and …
Zechariah 6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, …
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave to them, …
Acts 10:4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? …
