Numbers 31:51
in Numbers 31So Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
KJV
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
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This verse in Numbers 31
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them,.... For it seems the several things before mentioned were all of gold: even all wrought jewels; or "vessels of work" (h) or wrought vessels, or instruments, "chains, bracelets", &c. which were all of gold, and curiously wrought. (h) כלי מעשה "vas operis", Montanus.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The holy instruments - The holy breast-plate, wherein was the Urim and Thummim, which was easily carried, and very useful in war upon many emergent occasions. All the males - Namely all who lived in those parts, for colonies of them, were sent forth to remoter places, which therefore had no hand either in their former sin, or in this present ruling.
The war was undertaken on the behalf of the whole congregation; they would all have been ready to go to the help of the Lord against the mighty, if they had been so ordered, and they did help, it is likely, by their prayers; and therefore God appoints that those that tarried at home should divide the spoil, Ps. lxviii.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
officers . . . said . . . there lacketh not one man of us--A victory so signal, and the glory of which was untarnished by the loss of a single Israelitish soldier, was an astonishing miracle.
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The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּקַּ֨ח | vaiyikach | and he took | H3947 → | 966 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֜ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| וְאֶלְעָזָ֧ר | veelazar | and Eleazar | H499 → | 72 times |
| הַכֹּהֵ֛ן | hakohen | the priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַזָּהָ֖ב | hazahav | the gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| מֵֽאִתָּ֑ם | meitam | from with <the> them | H854 → | 929 times |
| כֹּ֖ל | kol | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| כְּלִ֥י | keli | article of | H3627 → | 325 times |
| מַעֲשֶֽׂה׃ | maaseh | work | H4639 → | 236 times |
וַיִּקַּ֨חand he took
vaiyikachH3947 →966 times
מֹשֶׁ֜הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
וְאֶלְעָזָ֧רand Eleazar
veelazarH499 →72 times
הַכֹּהֵ֛ןthe priest
hakohenH3548 →750 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַזָּהָ֖בthe gold
hazahavH2091 →389 times
מֵֽאִתָּ֑םfrom with <the> them
meitamH854 →929 times
כֹּ֖לevery
kolH3605 →5413 times
כְּלִ֥יarticle of
keliH3627 →325 times
מַעֲשֶֽׂה׃work
maasehH4639 →236 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.