Numbers 31:15
And Moses says to them, “Have you kept every female alive?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:34and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city—men, and the women, and the infants; we have not left a remnant;
Deuteronomy 20:16Only, of the cities of these peoples which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance, you do not keep alive any [that are] breathing;
Joshua 8:25and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand—all men of Ai.
Joshua 11:14and all the spoil of these cities, and the livestock, the sons of Israel have spoiled for themselves; only, they have struck every man by the mouth of the sword, until their destroying them; they have not left anyone breathing.
Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, || O the blessedness of him who repays to you your deed, || That you have done to us.
Ezekiel 9:6aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, you slay—to destruction; and against any man on whom [is] the mark you do not go near, and you begin from My sanctuary.”
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 →