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And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the (e) women alive? (e) As though he said, you should have spared none.
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...
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
Have ye saved all the women alive?— See on chap. Numbers 22:9 .
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? No JFB commentary on these verses.
War against Midian This chapter contains an account of the fulfilment of the decree of extermination passed upon the Midianites as being the occas...
Have ye saved all the women alive? — It was the women, as is expressed in the following verse, who had been the cause, at the instigation of Balaam...
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 cons...
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...
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 t...
It is truly interesting to see the zeal of the faithful. How jealous for the honour of GOD was Moses? In regarding the LORD'S glory, he passeth by al...
And Moses said unto them, have ye saved all the women alive ?] Which either had been reported to him, or he concluded, by seeing so many with them;...
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Ver. 15. Have ye saved all the women alive. ] By whom ye have so lately sinned, and s...
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 c...
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 w...
(i) The Sentence Passed and Carried Out on the Local Midianites ( Numbers 31:1-24 ). Analysis. a The command to avenge Yahweh on Midian ( Numbe...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Moses had already received command to smite the Midianites ( Numbers 25:16-18 ); and in this chapter we have the orde...
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 fe...
The Manner of Dealing with the Captives
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? It was a decided expression of disapproval at this course of action.
1 Samuel 15:3 ; Deuteronomy 2:34 ; Deuteronomy 20:13 ; Deuteronomy 20:16-18 ; Ezekiel 9:6 ; Jeremiah 48:10 ; Joshua 10:40 ; Joshua 11:14 ; J...
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?