Numbers 31:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. ”

Numbers 31:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Goodly castles - Rather, both here and in Genesis 25:16 , hamlets. The word is derived from a word טוּר ṭûr ,) signifying “a row” or “range” (compare Ezekiel 46:23 Ezekiel 46:23 ); and...
Numbers 31:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 31:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

burnt . burnt up, or down. Hebrew. saraph. App-43. The same judgment is in store for spiritual fornication. Revelation 17:16 ; Revelation 18:8 . castles . fortified places.
Numbers 31:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Numbers 31:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they warred against the Midianites, &c.— The twelve thousand men chosen out by Moses marched against the Midianites. The battle they gave them was less an ordinary combat, than an execution...
Numbers 31:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. The children of Isr...
Numbers 31:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 31:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

All their cities wherein they dwelt. — Better, all their cities in their dwelling-places. This expression is explained by a reference to Joshua 13:21 , from which it appears that the five kings...
Numbers 31:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Numbers 31:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Numbers 31:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Numbers 31:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The destruction of all the men of Midian means, no doubt, all that were then in Midian; for probably some of the subjects of Midian might be from home, or in Moab. And the wars which Israel had with...
Numbers 31:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt , c. So far as they went into the country, which, perhaps, might not be the whole land of Midian: and all their goodly castles with fire which w...
Numbers 31:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. Ver. 10. And they burnt all their cities. ] For the same reason, perhaps, that our Henry VIII demolis...
Numbers 31:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 31:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the L ORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely,...
Numbers 31:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Partly, to blot out the name and memory of so lewd and vile a people; partly, lest any of the Israelites should be tempted to settle there, and so be discouraged in their progress to Canaan; and part...
Numbers 31:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

(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...
Numbers 31:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 31:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Numbers 31:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Numbers 31:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Overthrow of Midian
Numbers 31:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 9:16 ; 1 Samuel 30:1 ; Isaiah 1:7 ; Joshua 6:24 ; Revelation 18:8

Numbers 31:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 31:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 31:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 31:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 31:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 31:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 31:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 31:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 31:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 31:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 31:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 31:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge