Numbers 31:3
And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people.
4Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.
Cross References
Exodus 17:16Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.
Numbers 25:11Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.
Judges 5:2O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord.
2 Kings 9:7And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab thy master, and I will revenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord at the hand of Jezabel.
Jeremiah 46:10For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the sword shall devour, and shall be filled, and shall be drunk with their blood: for there is a sacrifice of the Lord God of hosts in the north country, by the river Euphrates.
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 →