Numbers 31:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; ”

Numbers 31:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Purification of the Israelite Army after the Slaughter. The purification of warriors after a battle, practised in antiquity as by savage peoples to-day, was due, not to any desire for physical...
Numbers 31:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

went . came, or had come ordinance . statute.
Numbers 31:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
Numbers 31:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Eleazar—said— This is the ordinance of the law — i.e. "This is a law to be observed hereafter by all who go to war." The law before was, that he, who touched a dead body should be purified with...
Numbers 31:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Numbers 31:21 - 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 31:21 - 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 31:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Disposition of the Spoils of War Numbers 31:21-54 This law, which subjected the victors to a whole week of separation and to special purification, instead of an immediate welcome into the c...
Numbers 31:21 - 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 31:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The law respecting uncleanness had so much in it of allusion to the gospel, that it is not to be wondered at we meet with it upon every occasion. But Reader! how delightful is it to see our privilege...
Numbers 31:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war, which went to the battle ,.... To all the soldiers, officers, and common men: this is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord commanded Moses ; co...
Numbers 31:21 - 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 31:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the cap...
Numbers 31:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Numbers 31:21 - 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 31:21 - 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 31:21 - 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 31:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Purification of the Army
Numbers 31:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 30:16

Numbers 31:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 31:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 31:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 31:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 31:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 31:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 31:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 31:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 31:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 31:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge