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Bishop's Bible

Numbers 31:7

And they warred agaynst the Madianites as the Lord comaunded Moyses, and slue all the males.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Massacre;   War;   Thompson Chain Reference - Canaan, Land of;   Extermination;   Wars of Extermination;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Homicide;   Midianites;   Trumpet;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Midian;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Midian;   Moab;   Slave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Zur;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Midian, Mtdianites;   Red Heifer;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;   Midian, Midianites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Shittim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Slave;   Zimri (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Midian and Midianites;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They warred against Midyan, as the LORD commanded Moshe; and they killed every male.
King James Version
And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Lexham English Bible
And they fought against Midian just as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
English Standard Version
They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every male.
New Century Version
They fought the Midianites as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed every Midianite man.
New English Translation
They fought against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
Amplified Bible
They made war against Midian, just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
New American Standard Bible
So they made war against Midian, just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they warred against Midian, as the Lorde had commaunded Moses, and slue all the males.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they made war against Midian, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
Contemporary English Version
The Israelites fought against the Midianites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. They killed all the men,
Complete Jewish Bible
They fought against Midyan, as Adonai had ordered Moshe, and killed every male.
Darby Translation
And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and slew all the males.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites fought the Midianites as the Lord had commanded. They killed all the Midianite men.
George Lamsa Translation
And they warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Good News Translation
They attacked Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed all the men,
Christian Standard Bible®
They waged war against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed every male.
Literal Translation
And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and killed every male.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they fought agaynst ye Madianites as ye LORDE comaunded Moses, & slew all ye males,
American Standard Version
And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
Bible in Basic English
And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
King James Version (1611)
And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
English Revised Version
And they warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
Berean Standard Bible
Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei hadden fouyt ayens Madianytis, and hadden ouercome, thei killiden alle the malis,
Young's Literal Translation
And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;
Update Bible Version
And they warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
World English Bible
They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.
New King James Version
And they warred against the Midianites, just as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed all the males.
New Living Translation
They attacked Midian as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men.
New Life Bible
So the men made war against Midian, just as the Lord had told Moses, and they killed every male.
New Revised Standard
They did battle against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed every male.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they made war upon Midian, as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and slew every male:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.
Revised Standard Version
They warred against Mid'ian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and slew every male.
THE MESSAGE
They attacked Midian, just as God had commanded Moses, and killed every last man. Among the fallen were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. The People of Israel took the Midianite women and children captive and took all their animals and herds and goods as plunder. They burned to the ground all the towns in which Midianites lived and also their tent camps. They looted and plundered everything and everyone—stuff and people and animals. They took it all—captives and booty and plunder—back to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the company of Israel where they were camped on the Plains of Moab, at Jordan-Jericho.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they made war against Midian, just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

Contextual Overview

7 And they warred agaynst the Madianites as the Lord comaunded Moyses, and slue all the males. 8 And they slue the kynges of Madian among other that were slayne: Namelye, Eui, and Rekem, Zur, & Hur, and Reba: fiue kynges of Madian, with Balaam the sonne of Beor, whom they slue with the sworde. 9 And the children of Israel toke all the women of Madian prisoners, and their children, and spoyled all their cattel, and all their flockes, and all their goodes. 10 And they burnt all their cities wherin they dwelt, and all their goodly dwellynges, with fire: 11 And they toke all the spoyle, and all the bootie, both of men and beastes. 12 And they brought the captiues, and that which they had taken, and the spoyle, vnto Moyses and Eleazar the priest, and vnto the companie of the children of Israel, euen vnto the hoast that were in the fieldes of Moab by Iordane, ouer agaynst Iericho:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all: Deuteronomy 20:13, Deuteronomy 20:14, Judges 21:11, 1 Samuel 27:9, 1 Kings 11:15, 1 Kings 11:16

the males: Judges 6:1, Judges 6:2, Judges 6:33

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:25 - Simeon Numbers 24:14 - I will advertise Psalms 83:9 - as unto

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.
Genesis 31:14
Then aunswered Rachel, and Lea, and said vnto him: haue we had as yet any portion or inheritaunce in our fathers house?
Genesis 31:15
Doth not he count vs euen as straungers? for he hath solde vs, & hath quite deuoured also our money.
Genesis 31:29
For it is in my hand through God to do you hurt: But the God of your father spake vnto me yesternight, saying: Take heede that thou speake not to Iacob ought saue good.
Genesis 31:41
Thus haue I ben twentie yere in thy house, and serued thee fourteene yeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yere for thy sheepe, and thou hast chaunged my rewarde ten tymes.
Leviticus 26:26
And whe I haue broken the staffe of your bread ten wyues shall bake your bread in one ouen, and they shall deliuer you your bread agayne by wayght, ye shall eate, and not be satisfied.
Numbers 14:22
But all those men whiche haue seene my glory, and my miracles whiche I did in Egypt and in the wildernesse, and haue tempted me nowe this ten tymes, and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce:
Nehemiah 4:12
But when the Iewes which dwelt beside them, came, they told vs as good as ten times, that in all places where ye go vnto, they are appoynted to fal vpon vs.
Job 1:10
Hast thou not preserued him and his house, and al that he hath on euery side? Thou hast blessed the worke of his handes, and his possession is encreased in the lande.
Job 19:3
Lo, ten times haue ye reproched me, and are not ashamed, but haue laughed me to scorne.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses,.... Whether the Midianites came out against them with an army, and there was a pitched battle between them, is not certain; however the Israelites committed acts of hostility upon them, by entering their cities, plundering their houses, and slaying the inhabitants of them; the Targum of Jonathan is,

"they warred against Midian, and surrounded it in the three corners of it, as the Lord commanded Moses;''

for, as Maimonides b observes from tradition,

"when they besiege a city to take it, they do not surround it in the four corners of it, but in the three corners of it, and leave a place to flee out, that everyone that would might escape for his life, as it is said, "and they warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses"; by report, or from tradition, it is learnt that so he commanded him;''

that is, in such a manner to besiege a city; but for this there is only tradition, for it is not mentioned among the rules after directed to in such a case, Deuteronomy 20:10,

and they slew all the males; which fell into their hands; for, no doubt, there were multitudes that made their escape, since in later times we read of the Midianites, as a very powerful people, and very distressing to Israel, Judges 6:1 these, as Aben Ezra observes, they slew, were such as were grown up, for as for their little ones, them they spared and carried captive, Numbers 31:9.

b Hilchot Melacim, c. 6. sect. 7.


 
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