Numbers 31:14
Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who returned from the battle.
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13Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the Israelite leaders went out of the camp to meet them.
15“Why did you let all the women live?” he asked them.
Cross References
Exodus 32:22“Please don't get angry with me, my lord,” Aaron replied, “You yourself know how liable these people are to do evil.
Numbers 12:3Moses was a very humble man, more than anyone else on earth.
1 Samuel 15:13When Samuel caught up with him, Saul said, “The Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord ordered.”
2 Kings 13:19The man of God got angry with him, telling him, “You should have hit the ground five or six times. Then you would have attacked the Arameans until you had completely destroyed them. But now you will only attack the Arameans three times.”
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 →