Numbers 31:2
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people.
Targum Onkelos
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 spake with Mosheh, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 15:15And thou shalt be gathered to thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in good old age.
Genesis 25:8And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, aged, and full of days; and he was gathered unto his people.
Exodus 2:16And the prince ( rabba) of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Numbers 20:26And strip Aharon of his vestments, and put them upon Elazar his son; and Aharon shall be gathered (to his people), and shall die there.
Numbers 25:14And the name of the man of Israel who was slain with the Midianitess was Zimri bar Salu, a chief of the house of his fathers of the house of Shemeon;
Numbers 27:13And thou shalt see it, and be gathered to thy people, thou also, as Aharon thy brother was 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 →