Numbers 31:4

Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

In Context

3And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.

5And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:8Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others, and a hundred of you ten thousand: your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

1 Samuel 14:6And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord will do for us, because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, or by few.

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 →

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