Numbers 31:2
Avenge the wrongs of the children of Israel on the Midianites, and afterward thou shalt be added to thy people.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
In Context
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 15:15But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.
Genesis 25:8And Abraham failing died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people.
Exodus 2:16And the priest of Midian had seven daughters, feeding the flock of their father Jethro; and they came and drew water until they filled their pitchers, to water the flock of their father Jethro.
Numbers 20:26and take Aaron’s apparel from off him, and put it on Eleazar his son: and let Aaron die there and be added to his people.
Numbers 25:14Now the name of the smitten Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Simeon.
Numbers 27:13And thou shalt see it, and thou also shalt be added to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was added to them in Mount Hor:
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 →