Numbers 31:20

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins— La Roque, says the author of the Observations, mentions, as part of the common Arab's fur...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood. No JFB commentary on th...
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)

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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

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The law respecting uncleanness had so much in it of allusion to the gospel, that it is not to be wondered at we meet with it upon every occasion. But...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Abide without the camp seven days According to the law, Leviticus 15:13 . Purify yourselves With the water of sprinkling, Numbers 19:9 . Your...
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

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was w...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

All your raiment, to wit, your spoil and prey. See Leviticus 8:15 , Leviticus 14:49 . All these things had contracted some ceremonial uncleanne...
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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Purification of the Army
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, the vessels and the coverings made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, garments wove...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 19:10 ; Genesis 35:2 ; Numbers 19:14-16 ; Numbers 19:22
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Your raiment — Namely, your spoil and prey. All work — All which had contracted some ceremonial uncleanness either from the dead bodies which wore...

²⁰ And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 31:20

Arthur Peake's Commentary 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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Numbers 31:20