No text from Poole on this verse.
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 b...
spake. See note on Numbers 1:1 .
25. And the Lord spake unto Moses. A most equitable distribution of the booty is here described, in which the law of proportion was so well...
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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 th...
War against Midian This chapter contains an account of the fulfilment of the decree of extermination passed upon the Midianites as being the occas...
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 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 purifi...
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...
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 w...
And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... After the purification of the soldiers, their captives, and spoil: saying ; as follows.
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...
Distribution of the Spoil. B. C. 1452. ...
(ii) The Division of the Spoils ( Numbers 31:25-54 ). This whole passage follows the following pattern. a The sum of the prey that was taken an...
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...
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
The Division of the Spoils
25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,