Numbers 31:2
“Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites—afterward you are gathered to your people.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
In Context
1And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 15:15and you come to your fathers in peace; you are buried in a good old age;
Genesis 25:8and Abraham expires, and dies in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered to his people.
Exodus 2:16And to a priest of Midian [are] seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs to water the flock of their father,
Numbers 20:26and strip Aaron of his garments, and you have clothed his son Eleazar [with] them, and Aaron is gathered, and dies there.”
Numbers 25:14And the name of the man of Israel who is struck, who has been struck with the Midianitess, [is] Zimri son of Salu, prince of the house of a father of the Simeonite;
Numbers 27:13and you have seen it, and you have been gathered to your people, also you, as your brother Aaron has been gathered,
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 →