Numbers 31:5

So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

In Context

4Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”

6And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

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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 →

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