Numbers 31:3
So Moses/I said to the people, “Get some men prepared for battle. Yahweh will enable them to ◄pay back/get revenge on► the Midian people-group for what they did to us.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
4Select 1,000 men from each tribe to fight.”
Cross References
Exodus 17:16He/I said, “Hold high Yahweh’s flag! Yahweh will continue to fight against the Amalek people-group ◄forever/in all future generations►!”
Numbers 25:11“Phinehas has caused me to stop being angry with the Israeli people, by being as eager as I am to stop this sinful behavior. I was ready to get rid of all the Israeli people because I was extremely angry, but Phinehas has prevented me from doing that.
Judges 5:2“When the leaders of the Israeli people really lead them, and the people follow them, it is time to praise Yahweh!
2 Kings 9:7You must kill your master King Joram, the son of Ahab, because I want to punish Ahab’s wife Jezebel for murdering [MTY] many of my prophets and other people who served me.
Jeremiah 46:10But, you need to know that this is the day when I, Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels, will get revenge on my enemies. With my sword [PRS] I will kill my enemies until I am satisfied; my sword will be like a monster that [MET, PRS] drinks the blood of the animals it kills until it is no longer thirsty. The enemy soldiers who will be killed in the north beside the Euphrates River will be like [MET] a sacrifice to me, the Commander of the armies of angels.
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 →