Numbers 31:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. ”

• Numbers 31:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The Midianites - The Moabites are not included. It would thus seem that it was the Midianites, and they only, who deliberately set themselves to work the corruption of Israel.

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Avenge. Hebrew revenge the revengement. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6).. execute due vengeance. children . sons. afterward. Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septu...

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• Numbers 31:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. Gathered unto thy people - Where? Not in the grave surely. Moses was gathered with none of them, his...

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• Numbers 31:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here we see the fulfillment of that sacred Scripture, which assures us that the judgment of the ungodly lingereth not; for however the LORD may seem slack, as some men count slackness, yet the day of...

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• Numbers 31:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites ,.... For the injury they had done them, by sending their daughters among them, who enticed them to commit uncleanness with them, and then drew them i...

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• Numbers 31:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. Ver. 2. Avenge the children of Israel. ] This is called the vengeance of Jehovah. Num 31:3 The ri...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Slaughter of the Midianites. B. C. 1452.       1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying,...

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• Numbers 31:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of the Midianites, for their malicious designs and practices against Israel, both by hiring Balaam to curse them, and by sending their women to enslave them. The Moabites also were guilty, but God ou...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - 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...

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• Numbers 31:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Overthrow of Midian

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• Numbers 31:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Thessalonians 4:6 ; Acts 13:36 ; Deuteronomy 32:35 ; Exodus 2:16 ; Genesis 15:15 ; Genesis 25:1-4 ; Genesis 25:17 ; Genesis 25:8 ; Hebrews 10:30 ; Isaiah 1:24 ; Judges 16:24 ; Judges 16...

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