Numbers 31:13

Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

In Context

12And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

14And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.

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Cross References

Genesis 14:17And when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's Valley.

Numbers 19:11Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:

Numbers 31:22But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

1 Samuel 30:21And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:8-13

7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. 8 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. 9 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. 10 And they burnt all their cities… Read the whole commentary →

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