Numbers 31:15

Said: Why have you saved the women?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

In Context

14And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,

16Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:34And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

Deuteronomy 20:16But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

Joshua 8:25And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women, was twelve thousand persons all of the city of Hai.

Joshua 11:14And the children of Israel divided among themselves all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, killing all the men.

Psalms 137:8The sun to rule over the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Ezekiel 9:6Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who mere 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 →

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