Numbers 31:7 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 31:7

And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

KJV

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ASV

And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they slew every male.

WEB

Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

YLT

And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;

DBT

And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and slew all the males.

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Old Testament

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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.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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1 Kings 11:15–16
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
Judges 21:11
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
1 Samuel 27:9
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
Psalms 83:9
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
Judges 6:1–2
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

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), that is, all they met with as far as they went; they put them all to the sword, and gave no quarter. But that they did not slay all the males of the nation is certain, for we find the Midianites a powerful and formidable enemy to Israel in the days of Gideon; and they were the Midianites of this country, for they are reckoned with the children of the east, Judg. vi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But the destruction appears to have been only partial--limited to those who were in the neighborhood of the Hebrew camp and who had been accomplices in the villainous plot of Baal-peor (Nu 25:1-3), while a large portion of the Midianites were absent on their pastoral wanderings or had saved themselves by flight.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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