Numbers 31:6

And Mosheh sent them one thousand of a tribe to array them, and Phinehas bar Elazar the priest, with the host, and the holy vessels, and the Jubela trumpets in his hand.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

In Context

5And from the thousands of Israel there were chosen a thousand of a tribe, twelve thousand armed for the host.

7And the host gathered against Midian, as tile Lord had commanded Mosheh; and they slaughtered every male.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:8And the sons of Aharon, the priests, are to blow with the trumpets; and this shall be to you a perpetual statute for your generations.

Numbers 14:44Yet they would commit the wickedness of going up to the summit of the mountain, though the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and Mosheh, removed not from the midst of the camp.

Numbers 33:20And they removed from Rimmon-pharez, and encamped in Libnah.

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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