Numbers 31:2
“First, avenge the sons of Israel from the Midianites, and then you shall be gathered to your people.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
In Context
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 15:15But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 25:8And declining, he died in a good old age, and at an advanced stage of life, and full of days. And he was gathered to his people.
Exodus 2:16Now there was a priest of Midian with seven daughters, who came to draw water. And having filled the troughs, they desired to water their father’s flocks.
Numbers 20:26And when you have stripped the father of his vestments, you shall put them on Eleazar, his son. Aaron shall be gathered and shall die there.”
Numbers 25:14Now the name of the Israelite man, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader from the kinship and tribe of Simeon.
Numbers 27:13And when you have seen it, you shall then go to your people, just as your brother Aaron went.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:2-7
The Slaughter of the Midianites. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. 3 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. 4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. 5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe,… Read the whole commentary →