No text from Poole on this verse.
This verse seems to imply that the soldiers, as distinct from the officers (compare Numbers 31:49 ), did not make any offering from their plunder....
([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for (r) himself.) (r) And gave no portion to their captains.
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...
( For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
Numbers 31:53 . ( For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself )— But the men of war had every one their own booty. Houbigant; or,...
And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses: Officers ....
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 class all these verses together, because they are connected in the history, and because the improvements they suggest are all united. We have in th...
For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself. And which he kept for himself, and did not deliver in with the prey or booty, which was...
Numbers 31:53 ([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) Ver. 53. For the men of war had taken spoil. ] And kept what they c...
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...
48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses: 49...
The Sum of The Surviving Men of War and Their Freewill Gift to The Sanctuary Of Their Personal Spoil ( Numbers 31:48-54 ). a The assessing of the...
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 Gifts Consecrated to the Lord
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
Deuteronomy 20:14
53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)