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Complete Jewish Bible

Numbers 31:7

They fought against Midyan, as Adonai had ordered Moshe, and killed every male.

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,
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they warred agaynst the Madianites as the Lord comaunded Moyses, and slue all the males.
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 They fought against Midyan, as Adonai had ordered Moshe, and killed every male. 8 They killed the kings of Midyan along with the others who were slain — Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bil‘am the son of B‘or with the sword. 9 The people of Isra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones, and they took as booty all their cattle, flocks and other goods. 10 They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their camps. 11 They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured, 12 and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El‘azar the cohen and the community of Isra'el in the camp on the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.

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
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in doing this, your heart has been pure; and I too have kept you from sinning against me. This is why I didn't let you touch her.
Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "We no longer have any inheritance from our father's possessions;
Genesis 31:15
and he considers us foreigners, since he has sold us; moreover, he has consumed everything he received in exchange for us.
Genesis 31:29
I have it in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, ‘Be careful that you don't say anything to Ya‘akov, either good or bad.'
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I've been in your house — I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock; and you changed my wages ten times!
Leviticus 26:26
I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.
Numbers 14:22
none of the people who saw my glory and the signs I did in Egypt and in the desert, yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,
Nehemiah 4:12
As for the construction-workers, each one had his sword sheathed at his side; that is how they built. The man to sound the alarm on the shofar stayed with me.
Job 1:10
You've put a protective hedge around him, his house and everything he has. You've prospered his work, and his livestock are spread out all over the land.
Job 19:3
You've insulted me ten times already; aren't you ashamed to treat me so badly?

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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