1 Kings 9:16; 1 Samuel 30:1; Isaiah 1:7; Joshua 6:24; Revelation 18:8
Goodly castles - Rather, both here and in Genesis 25:16 , hamlets. The word is derived from a word טוּר ṭûr ,) signifying “a row” or “range...
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...
burnt . burnt up, or down. Hebrew. saraph. App-43. The same judgment is in store for spiritual fornication. Revelation 17:16 ; Revelation 18:8 ....
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
And they warred against the Midianites, &c.— The twelve thousand men chosen out by Moses marched against the Midianites. The battle they gave t...
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their fl...
War against Midian This chapter contains an account of the fulfilment of the decree of extermination passed upon the Midianites as being the occas...
All their cities wherein they dwelt. — Better, all their cities in their dwelling-places. This expression is explained by a reference to Joshua...
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...
The destruction of all the men of Midian means, no doubt, all that were then in Midian; for probably some of the subjects of Midian might be from hom...
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt , c. So far as they went into the country, which, perhaps, might not be the whole land of Midian:...
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. Ver. 10. And they burnt all their cities. ] For the...
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...
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the L ORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian,...
Partly, to blot out the name and memory of so lewd and vile a people; partly, lest any of the Israelites should be tempted to settle there, and so be...
(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...
They warred against the Midianites. The vengeance of Jehovah on Midian I. That in the administration of the Divine government the punishment of...
The Overthrow of Midian
And they burned all their cities, the fortified towns, wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, the unfortified hamlets or encampments, wit...
10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.