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Numbers 31:10

Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their tents.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Captive;   Castle;   Spoils;   War;   Thompson Chain Reference - Castles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Midianites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Midian;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Ishmael;   Midian;   Moab;   Tema;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Castle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Midian, Mtdianites;   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 - Goodly;   Slave;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Augury;   Hafṭarah;   Midian and Midianites;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
King James Version
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Lexham English Bible
They burned all their cities where they dwelled and all their camps with fire.
English Standard Version
All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,
New Century Version
They burned all the Midianite towns where they had settled and all their camps,
New English Translation
They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.
Amplified Bible
They burned all the cities where they lived, and all their encampments with fire.
New American Standard Bible
Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their encampments.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they burnt all their cities, wherein they dwelt, and all their villages with fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.
Contemporary English Version
They also burned down the Midianite towns and villages.
Complete Jewish Bible
They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their camps.
Darby Translation
and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then they burned all their towns and villages.
George Lamsa Translation
And they burned all the cities wherein they dwelt and all their unwalled villages with fire.
Good News Translation
and burned all their cities and camps.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,
Literal Translation
And they burned all their cities with fire, their homes, and all their towers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and all their cities of their dwellynges & castels burnt they wt fyre.
American Standard Version
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Bible in Basic English
And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they burnt all their cities wherin they dwelt, and all their goodly dwellynges, with fire:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
King James Version (1611)
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles with fire:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation and they burnt their villages with fire.
English Revised Version
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Berean Standard Bible
Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
flawme brente as wel citees, as litle townes and castels.
Young's Literal Translation
and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.
Update Bible Version
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
World English Bible
All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
New King James Version
They also burned with fire all the cities where they dwelt, and all their forts.
New Living Translation
They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived.
New Revised Standard
All their towns where they had settled, and all their encampments, they burned,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
all their cities also in their sites, and all their encampments, burned they up with fire.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.
Revised Standard Version
All their cities in the places where they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.

Contextual Overview

7 So the men made war against Midian, just as the Lord had told Moses, and they killed every male. 8 They killed the five kings of Midian with the sword also, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. 9 The people of Israel took the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their cattle, all their flocks, and all the good things that belonged to them. 10 Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their tents. 11 They took all that was left of both man and animal. 12 And they brought the people they had taken and the animals and whatever belonged to them to Moses, and to Eleazar the religious leader, and to the people of Israel. Their tents were on the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 6:24, 1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Kings 9:16, Isaiah 1:7, Revelation 18:8

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:54 - castles

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this with a heart of honor. And I kept you from sinning against Me. I did not let you touch her.
Genesis 28:12
And he had a dream. He saw steps going up from the earth to heaven. He saw the angels of God going up and down these steps.
Genesis 30:39
So the flocks mated in front of the sticks. And the young that were born had spots.
Genesis 31:24
But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night. He said to him, "Be careful that you do not speak good or bad to Jacob."
Numbers 12:6
the Lord said, "Now listen to Me. If there is a man who speaks for God among you, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in a special dream. I will speak with him in a dream.
Deuteronomy 13:1
"A man who tells what is going to happen or a dreamer of dreams may come among you. He may give you something special to see or do a powerful work.
1 Kings 3:5
The Lord came to Solomon in a special dream in Gibeon during the night. God said, "Ask what you wish Me to give you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, c. So far as they went into the country, which, perhaps, might not be the whole land of Midian:

and all their goodly castles with fire which were either the palaces of their princes and nobles, or such like great personages; or they were fortified places, for the security of their cities and country: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan interpret them of their houses of worship, their temples, and their altars.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Goodly castles - Rather, both here and in Genesis 25:16, hamlets. The word is derived from a word טוּר ṭûr,) signifying “a row” or “range” (compareEzekiel 46:23; Ezekiel 46:23); and probably indicates those collections of rude dwellings, made of stones piled one on another and covered with tent-cloths, which are used by the Arabs to this day; and which are frequently mentioned as douars in narratives of the French campaigns in Algeria. These dwellings would be formed usually in a circle. See the word “Hazeroth,” in Numbers 11:35.


 
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