Numbers 31:15
And Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining.
Deuteronomy 20:16But of the cities of these peoples, that LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, thou shall save alive nothing that breathes,
Joshua 8:25And all who fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
Joshua 11:14And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the sons of Israel took for a prey to themselves, but every man they smote with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, neither did they leave any who breathed.
Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, who is to be destroyed, happy shall he be who rewards thee as thou have served us.
Ezekiel 9:6Kill utterly the old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little sons, and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:14-25
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 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… Read the whole commentary →