Numbers 31:23
and everything that resists fire, you must put it through the fire, and it will become clean. You must then purify those things with the water of cleansing. Whatever cannot go through the fire you must cleanse with that water.
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22The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead,
Cross References
Exodus 19:14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He set apart the people to Yahweh and they washed their garments.
Leviticus 15:17Every garment or leather on which there is semen must be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:9Someone who is clean must gather up the heifer's ashes and put them outside the camp in a clean place. These ashes must be kept for the community of the people of Israel. They will mix the ashes with water for purification from sin, since the ashes were from a sin offering.
Isaiah 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. 1 When you walk through the fire you will not be burned, and the flames will not destroy you. 1
Malachi 2:2“If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it on your heart to give honor to my name,” says Yahweh of hosts, “then I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them, because you are not laying my command on your heart.
1 Corinthians 3:13his work will be revealed, for the daylight will reveal it. For it will be revealed in fire. The fire will test the quality of what each one had done.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:14-25
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the… Read the whole commentary →