Numbers 31:5

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

In Context

4Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

6And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, and he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound.

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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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