4 Mose 31:8

Lutherbibel

Dazu die Könige der Midianiter erwürgten sie samt ihren Erschlagenen, nämlich Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur und Reba, die fünf Könige der Midianiter. Bileam, den Sohn Beors, erwürgten sie auch mit dem Schwert.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Sie töteten auch die Könige der Midianiter zu den andern [von ihnen] Erschlagenen, nämlich Evi, Rekem, Zur, Chur und Reba, fünf Könige der Midianiter; auch Bileam, den Sohn Beors, brachten sie mit dem Schwerte um.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und sie töteten die Könige von Midian, samt ihren Erschlagenen: Ewi und Rekem und Zur und Hur und Reba, fünf Könige von Midian; und auch Bileam, den Sohn Beors, töteten sie mit dem Schwerte.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the kings: Numbers 22:4, Joshua 13:21, Joshua 13:22

Zur: Numbers 25:15, Numbers 25:18

Balaam: Numbers 22:10, Numbers 24:25, Joshua 13:22, Psalms 9:16, Psalms 10:2, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 1:11, Revelation 2:14, Revelation 19:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:2 - Midian Genesis 37:28 - Midianites 1 Kings 22:25 - Behold Psalms 68:12 - Kings Psalms 83:9 - as unto Micah 6:5 - Balaam Matthew 7:22 - have we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain,.... Besides the males of the common people, they slew their kings, who were petty kings or princes, perhaps under the king of Moab, or had reassumed their titles and government after the death of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who, in his time, were called dukes of Sihon, Joshua 13:21, namely,

Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; the Targum of Jonathan says of Zur, this is Balak, which is not probable; it is more likely, what Aben Ezra observes, that he was the father of Cosbi, whom Phinehas slew, Numbers 25:15.

Balaam also, the son of Beor, they slew with the sword; so that he died not a natural death, but a violent one, not such an one as he desired, the death of the righteous, but of bloody and deceitful men, who do not live out half their days; for if the Jewish writers c are to be credited, he was but thirty four years of age when he was slain, which is not quite half the age of man, that being seventy, Psalms 90:10, it appears by this that he was among the Midianites at the time of this war; either he stayed here till this time, when he went from Balak with an intention to go into his own country; or he had returned hither, being either sent for, by the princes of Midian, on this occasion; or, as some say, as Aben Ezra observes, that he came to Midian after he returned to his place, on hearing the plague that came upon Israel through his counsel, to receive the money of the elders of Midian for it; and so Chaskuni.

c Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they slew ... were slain ... - Render: And the kings of Midian they put to death, beside those that fell in the battle; namely, etc. From which it would seem that beside these five, put to death after the battle, there were other Midianite kings who perished fighting. The five chieftains here mentioned were vassals of Sihon the Amorite Joshua 13:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 31:8. Balaam - they slew with the sword. — This man had probably committed what St. John calls the sin unto death - a sin which God punishes with temporal death, while at the same time he extends mercy to the soul. Numbers 24:25.