Deuteronomy 20:14; Joshua 8:2
The “prey” refers to the captives and live-stock: the “spoil” to the ornaments and other effects.
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...
prey . booty. Hebrew. malkoah. First occurrence. Always used of animated prey. Compare Numbers 31:32 .
11. And they took all the spoil. It was a sign both of their disinterestedness and modesty, that they brought the booty, which they had take...
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
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 they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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 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 took all the spoil ,.... In their cities and castles; and all the prey, both of men and of beasts; all sorts of cattle, oxen, sheep, and as...
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,...
No text from Poole on this verse.
(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 took all the spoil and all the prey, all the plunder both in treasures and in animals, both of men and of beasts.
11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.