Bilangan 31:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka sekarang bunuhlah semua laki-laki di antara anak-anak mereka, dan juga semua perempuan yang pernah bersetubuh dengan laki-laki haruslah kamu bunuh.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka sekarang bunuhlah semua laki-laki di antara anak-anak mereka, dan juga semua perempuan yang pernah bersetubuh dengan laki-laki haruslah kamu bunuh.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebab itu bunuhlah segala yang laki-laki di antara anak-anak itu dan bunuhlah segala perempuan yang sudah tahu bersetubuh dengan orang laki-laki.

Contextual Overview

¹³ And Moyses and Eleazar the priest, and all the lordes of the congregation, went out of the hoast to meete them. ¹⁴ And Moyses was angrie with the officers of the hoast, with the captaynes ouer thousandes, and ouer hundredes, which came from the warre & battayle. ¹⁵ And Moyses sayde vnto them: Haue ye saued all the women alyue? ¹⁶ Beholde, these caused the children of Israel through the councel of Balaam, to commit trespasse agaynst the Lorde in the businesse of Peor, and there folowed a plague among the congregation of the Lorde. ¹⁷ Nowe therfore, slay all the men children, and kyl the women that haue lien with men fleshly. ¹⁸ But all the women children that haue not lien with men carnally, kepe alyue for your selues. ¹⁹ And ye shall remayne without the hoast seuen dayes, all that haue kylled any person, and all that haue touched any dead body, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the thirde day and the seuenth. ²⁰ And purifie all your raymentes, and that is made of skinnes, and all worke of goates heere, and all thinges made of wood. ²¹ And Eleazar the priest sayde vnto the men of warre which went to the battayle: This is the ordinauce of the lawe which the Lorde comaunded Moyses: ²² As for golde, siluer, brasse, and iron, tinne, and lead,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

kill every male: The sword of war should spare women and children, as incapable of resisting; but the sword of justice knows no distinction, except that of guilty or not guilty, or more or less guilty. This was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the greatest criminals; and it may safely be said, that their lives were forfeited by their personal transgressions. With respect to the execution of the male infants, who cannot be supposed to have been guilty, God, the author and supporter of life, who has a right to dispose of it when and how he thinks proper, commanded it; and "shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Judges 21:11, Judges 21:12

him: Heb. a male

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:1 - knew Genesis 24:16 - known Genesis 34:25 - Simeon Genesis 34:28 - General Numbers 31:32 - the booty Deuteronomy 20:13 - thou shalt smite 1 Samuel 15:3 - slay 1 Kings 11:15 - every male

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.

Genesis 24:61
And Rebecca arose and her damselles, and gat them vp vpon the Camelles, and folowed the man: and the seruaunt toke Rebecca, and went his waye.

1 Samuel 30:17
And Dauid layde vpon them from the twylight, euen vnto the euening of the next morowe: so that there escaped not a man of them, saue foure hundred young men which rode vpon cammels, and fled.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones,.... Which they had taken and brought captives, Numbers 31:9

and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him; who might be such, at least many of them, who had lain with Israelitish men; and as the adulterers had been put to death, so now the adulteresses; or they were ordered to, be slain, even all of them, lest they should entice the children of Israel to uncleanness, and so to idolatry again: now these were known to be such, either by conjecture at their age, or rather, through the examination of matrons, unless it can be thought, as it is by some, that it was by divine revelation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 31:17. Kill every male among the little ones — For this action I account simply on the principle that God, who is the author and supporter of life, has a right to dispose of it when and how he thinks proper; and the Judge of all the earth can do nothing but what is right. Of the women killed on this occasion it may be safely said, their lives were forfeited by their personal transgressions; and yet even in this case there can be little doubt that God showed mercy to their souls. The little ones were safely lodged; they were taken to heaven and saved from the evil to come.