Numbers 31:2
“Before you die, tell the Israeli people that they should ◄pay back/get revenge on► the Midian people-group for what they did to you.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
In Context
1Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and said,
Cross References
Genesis 15:15But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
Genesis 25:8He died at a very old age, joining his ancestors who had died previously [DOU].
Exodus 2:16The man who was the ◄priest/one who offered the people’s gifts to God► for the Midian people, whose name was Jethro, had seven daughters. One day as Moses/I sat down beside a well, those girls came to the well and got water, and filled the troughs in order to give water to their father’s flock of sheep.
Numbers 20:26There you must remove Aaron’s robes that he wears when he does the work of a priest, and put them on his son, Eleazar. Aaron will die up there.”
Numbers 25:14The Israeli man who was killed with the woman of the Moab people-group was named Zimri. He was the son of Salu, who was the leader of a family from the tribe of Simeon.
Numbers 27:13After you have seen it, you will die [EUP] just like your older brother Aaron did.
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 →