Numbers 31:15
Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:34We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
Deuteronomy 20:16But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
Joshua 8:25All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
Joshua 11:14The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.
Psalms 137:8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.
Ezekiel 9:6Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
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 →