Numeri 31:5

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

En zij namen uit de duizenden van Isral duizend uit elken stam, twaalf duizend toegerust tot het leger.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Zo werden uit Israels stammen, duizend van elken stam, twaalfduizend slagvaardige mannen geteld

Staten Vertaling
Alzo werden geleverd uit de duizenden van Israel, duizend van elken stam, twaalf duizend toegerusten ten strijde.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they were delivered out of the thousands of Israel,....] Several thousands very probably offered themselves voluntarily to go to the war, or however were summoned together on this account, and out of them the following number was delivered of picked and chosen men:

a thousand [of every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war; which was but a small number to go against so considerable a nation and people; but this was done to show that the war was of the Lord, he would fight the battle, and give them victory, it being the same to him to do it with few as with many; and to encourage the people of Israel to believe the Lord would give them success against their many and powerful enemies in the land of Canaan, on the borders of which they now were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Were delivered - Or, “were told off.”