Numbers 31:14

And Moses, being angry with the leaders of the army, and the tribunes, and the centurions, who had arrived from the battle,

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In The King James Version

And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.

In Context

13Then Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the assembly went out to meet them beyond the camp.

15said: “Why have you spared the females?

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Cross References

Exodus 32:22And he answered him: “Let not my lord be indignant. For you know this people, that they are prone to evil.

Numbers 12:3(for Moses was a man exceedingly meek, beyond all the men who were living upon the earth)

1 Samuel 15:13And when Samuel had gone to Saul, Saul said to him: “You are the blessed of the Lord. I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.”

2 Kings 13:19the man of God became angry against him. And he said: “If you had struck five or six or seven times, you would have struck down Syria, even until it was consumed. But now you will strike it three times.”

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 →

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