Numbers 31:2

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Midianites - The Moabites are not included. It would thus seem that it was the Midianites, and they only, who deliberately set themselves to...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Avenge. Hebrew revenge the revengement. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6).. execute due vengeance. children . sons. afterward. Samaritan P...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. Gathered unto thy people - Where? Not in the grave...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying— After Moses had repeated to the people the laws in the foregoing Chapter s, God determined, before he took t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge ... of the Midianites - a semi-nomadic people, descended fro...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

War against Midian This chapter contains an account of the fulfilment of the decree of extermination passed upon the Midianites as being the occas...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we see the fulfillment of that sacred Scripture, which assures us that the judgment of the ungodly lingereth not; for however the LORD may seem...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites ,.... For the injury they had done them, by sending their daughters among them, who enticed them to...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. Ver. 2. Avenge the children of Israel. ] This i...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Slaughter of the Midianites. B. C. 1452....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of the Midianites, for their malicious designs and practices against Israel, both by hiring Balaam to curse them, and by sending their women to ensla...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

(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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Biblical Illustrator

They warred against the Midianites. The vengeance of Jehovah on Midian I. That in the administration of the Divine government the punishment of...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Overthrow of Midian
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, by undertaking a formal campaign of revenge against them, as commanded Numbers 26:16-18 . Afterwar...

² Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 31:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 31:2