Numbers 31:15
And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey.
Deuteronomy 20:16Of these ye shall not take anything alive;
Joshua 8:25And they that fell in that day, men and women, were twelve thousand: they slew all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua 11:14And the children of Israel took all its spoils to themselves; and they slew all the men with the edge of the sword, until he destroyed them; they left not one of them breathing.
Psalms 137:8O Lord, thou shalt recompense them on my behalf: 1 Thy mercy, O Lord, endures forever: 1 Overlook not the works of thy hands.
Ezekiel 9:6Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go ye not nigh any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.
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 →