Numbers 31:14

and Moses is angry against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the warfare of battle.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.

In Context

13And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, go out to meet them, to the outside of the camp,

15And Moses says to them, “Have you kept every female alive?

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Cross References

Exodus 32:22And Aaron says, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you have known the people, that it [is beset] with evil;

Numbers 12:3And the man Moses [is] very humble, more than any of the men who [are] on the face of the ground.

1 Samuel 15:13And Samuel comes to Saul, and Saul says to him, “Blessed [are] you of YHWH; I have performed the word of YHWH.”

2 Kings 13:19And the man of God is angry against him and says, “By striking five or six times then you had struck Aram until consuming; but now you [only] strike Aram 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 →

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