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Green's Literal Translation

Numbers 31:7

And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, 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,
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.
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 And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and killed every male. 8 And they killed the kings of Midian, besides the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. 9 And the sons of Israel took the women of Midian captive, and their infants, and all their livestock, and all their possessions. And they plundered all their wealth. 10 And they burned all their cities with fire, their homes, and all their towers. 11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, among man and among animal. 12 And they brought it to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the sons of Israel; the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to the camp, to the plains of Moab which are by Jordan, near Jericho.

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 said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the honor of your heart, and I also withheld you from sinning against Me. On account of this I did not allow you to touch her.
Genesis 31:14
And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet to us a portion and an inheritance in the house of our father?
Genesis 31:15
Are we not counted strangers by him. For he has sold us, and selling he has sold us for silver.
Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to do you harm. But the God of your fathers spoke to me last night, saying, Watch out for yourself that you do not speak with Jacob from good to evil.
Genesis 31:41
Now I have been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times.
Leviticus 26:26
When I break to you the staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall give back your bread by weight; and you shall eat, and shall not be satisfied.
Numbers 14:22
for all the men who are seeing My glory, and My miracles which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tried Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,
Nehemiah 4:12
And it happened when the Jews who lived near them came in, they said to us ten times, From all places where you shall return, they will be against us.
Job 1:10
Have You not made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that is his all around? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
Job 19:3
This ten times you have shamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

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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