Numbers 31:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, ”

Numbers 31:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Numbers 31:11 , and render “And the prey” (i. e., the live prey) “in addition to the spoil which the men of war seized, etc.” The “spoil” is described in Numbers 31:50 . The number of s...
Numbers 31:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Division of the Booty. The principle of equal division between those who went forth to fight, and those who remained in the camp was observed by David ( 1 Samuel 30:22-25 ), who seems to have b...
Numbers 31:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, The booty - It appears from the enumeration here th...
Numbers 31:32 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the booty, being the rest, &c.— Hence it appears, that Midian must have been an extremely populous and fertile country; for the sum total of the divided booty was as in the following table,...
Numbers 31:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, The booty, being the rest of the prey. Some o...
Numbers 31:32 - 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 31:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the booty, being the rest of the prey... — The reference may be to the residue of the captives after the slaughter of all the males and of a large number of the women, and to the cattle which w...
Numbers 31:32 - 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 31:32 - 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 31:32 - 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 31:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I think it not necessary to break the chain of those verses, when one general observation may be properly made from the whole taken together. It is worthy of remark, how graciously the LORD, by takin...
Numbers 31:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ver. 32-47. And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught ,.... The remainder of it, besides what they had eaten in their return from the war, and during their seven days...
Numbers 31:32 - 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 31:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Distribution of the Spoil. B. C. 1452. 25 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26...
Numbers 31:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The rest of the prey; all which was now left of the prey. It is so expressed because they took more, but some of the persons were since killed, Numbers 31:17 , and some of the cattle was spent f...
Numbers 31:32 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Division Between the Men of War, Yahweh (the Priests), the People and the Levites ( Numbers 31:32-47 ). The assessing and dividing of the spoils follows a sequential pattern rather than the u...
Numbers 31:32 - 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 31:32 - 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 31:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Division of the Spoils
Numbers 31:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 31:32

Numbers 31:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 31:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 31:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 31:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 31:32 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 31:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 31:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 31:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 31:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 31:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge