Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
Vex the Midianites, and smite them;
`Distress the Midianites, and ye have smitten them,
Harass the Midianites, and smite them,
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
Voices4
Vex the Midianites, and smite them.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Vex the Midianites, etc. - See this order fulfilled, Numbers 31:1-20. Twelve thousand Israelites attacked the Midianites, destroyed all their cities, slew their five kings, every male, and every grown up woman, and took all their spoils.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The Midianites - And why not the Moabites. It is probable the Midianites were most guilty, as in persuading Balak to send for Balaam, chap. xxii, 4, 7. So in the reception of Balaam after Balak had dismissed him, chap. xxxi, 8, and in farther consultation with him, and in contriving the means for the executing of this wicked plot.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
Note, We must set ourselves against that, whatever it is, which is an occasion of sin to us, though it be a right eye or a right hand that thus offends us, Matt. v. 29, 30 . This is that holy indignation and revenge which godly sorrow worketh, 2 Cor. vii.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Revelation 18:6Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
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Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has…
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD,…
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His…
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches5
and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
And the LORD said to Moses,
Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
