Numbers 31:4
Select 1,000 men from each tribe to fight.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
In Context
5So 12,000 men prepared for fighting in the battle, 1,000 from each tribe.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:8Five of you will pursue 100 of them, and 100 of you will pursue 1,000 of them and kill them with your swords.
1 Samuel 14:6Jonathan said to the young man who carried his weapons, “Come with me. We will go to where those ◄pagans/people who do not believe in Yahweh► [MTY] have set up their tents. Perhaps Yahweh will help us. It does not matter whether we are only two men or many people; nothing can hinder Yahweh from enabling us to defeat them.”
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 →