“ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ”
The Extermination of the Midianites. This story of a war of extermination, waged to avenge the wiles practised on Israel by Midian (as described in Numbers 25:6-15 ) is marked by various fanciful...
spake. See note on Numbers 1:1 .
1. And the Lord spake unto Moses. Amongst the other prerogatives which God conferred upon His Church, this one is celebrated, that He armed the godly “to execute vengeance upon the heathen,...
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying— After Moses had repeated to the people the laws in the foregoing Chapter s, God determined, before he took this great lawgiver to himself, to use his ministra...
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge ... of the Midianites - a semi-nomadic people, descended from Abraham and Keturah, occupying a tract of countr...
War against Midian This chapter contains an account of the fulfilment of the decree of extermination passed upon the Midianites as being the occasion of Israel's apostasy in the plains of Moab: se...
XXXI. (1) Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites. — The time had now come for the fulfilment of the command which had already been given (see Numbers 25:16-18 ), after which Moses was...
WAR AND SETTLEMENT 1. THE WAR WITH MIDIAN Numbers 31:1-54 THE command to vex and smite the Midianites Numbers 25:16-17 has already been considered. Israel had not the spiritual power which w...
the Destruction of the Midianites Numbers 31:1-20 In reading such a chapter as this we must remember that the Bible is the history of the slow advance of a nation toward the knowledge of God, a...
Here we have the story of the end of Balaam. It took place in connection with a war directly resulting from the sin of the people committed through the influence of Balaam. They had corrupted the nat...
CONTENTS In this Chapter we have the relation of Israel's war with Midian. The number of the army appointed by the LORD himself; the success of GOD'S host; the event of the battle in the spoils brou...
And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... After the plague upon Israel for their fornication and idolatry, into which they were drawn by the daughters of Moab and Midian, and after the sum of the people w...
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites For their malicious designs and practices against Israel, both by hiring Balaam to curse them, and by sending their women to insnare them. The Moabit...
VENGEANCE ON MIDIAN (vs.1-11) The Midianites had been guilty of seducing Israel, and God required that account to be settled. This was the last charge laid upon Moses before his death (v.2). His...
The Slaughter of the Midianites. B. C. 1452. 1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying,...
NUMBERS CHAPTER 31 God commanded Moses, before he die, to avenge Israel of the Midianites, Numbers 31:1,2 . he chooses twelve thousand men, and Phineas: the kings of Midian and Balaam slain, N...
(i) The Sentence Passed and Carried Out on the Local Midianites ( Numbers 31:1-24 ). Analysis. a The command to avenge Yahweh on Midian ( Numbers 31:1-6 ). b The judgment of Yahweh in the def...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Moses had already received command to smite the Midianites ( Numbers 25:16-18 ); and in this chapter we have the order given to him to execute that command, and the na...
Numbers 31:2 . Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites. If it were just to cut off twenty four thousand of the Israelites for the awful feast, apostasy, and fornication at Baal-peor, it wa...
They warred against the Midianites. The vengeance of Jehovah on Midian I. That in the administration of the Divine government the punishment of sin is certain. 1. The sin which the Midianite...
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 31:1