Numbers 31:34
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...
And threescore and one thousand asses,
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
Numbers 31:32 .
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. ...
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Division Between the Men of War, Yahweh (the Priests), the People and the Levites ( Numbers 31:32-47 ). The assessing and dividing of the spo...
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 Division of the Spoils
and threescore and one thousand asses (61,000),
34 And threescore and one thousand asses,