Numbers 31:3
So Moses spoke to the people. He said, “Arm some of your men for war so they may go against Midian and carry out Yahweh's vengeance on it.
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4Every tribe throughout Israel must send a thousand soldiers to war.”
Cross References
Exodus 17:16He said, “For a hand was lifted up to the throne of Yahweh—that Yahweh will wage war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Numbers 25:11“Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned my rage away from the people of Israel because he was passionate with my zeal among them. So I have not consumed the people of Israel in my fierceness.
Judges 5:2“When the leaders take the lead in Israel, 1 when the people gladly volunteer for war— 1 we praise Yahweh! 1
2 Kings 9:7You must kill the family of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, who were murdered by the hand of Jezebel.
Jeremiah 46:10That day will be the day of vengeance for the Lord Yahweh of hosts, and he will avenge himself on his foes. 1 The sword will devour and be satisfied. It will drink its fill of their blood. For there will be a sacrifice 1 to the Yahweh Lord of hosts in the northern land by the Euphrates River. 1
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 →