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Bilangan 31:2

"Lakukanlah pembalasan orang Israel kepada orang Midian; kemudian engkau akan dikumpulkan kepada kaum leluhurmu."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Death;   Deaths Foretold;   Midianites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Midianites;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;   War;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Midian;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Midian;   Moab;   Numbers, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Midian, Mtdianites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 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 - Hur;   Midian;   Revenge;   Sheol;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;   Hafṭarah;   Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;   Midian and Midianites;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Lakukanlah pembalasan orang Israel kepada orang Midian; kemudian engkau akan dikumpulkan kepada kaum leluhurmu."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tuntutlah bela bani Israel akan orang Midiani, kemudian engkau akan pulang kelak kepada asalmu.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: 2 Auenge the children of Israel of the Madianites, & afterwarde shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people. 3 And Moyses spake vnto the folke, saying: Harnesse some of you vnto warre, and let them go vpon the Madianites, & auenge the Lorde of the Madianites. 4 Of euery tribe a thousande, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shal ye sende to the warre. 5 And there were deliuered out of the thousandes of Israel, twelue thousand prepared vnto warre, of euery tribe a thousande. 6 And Moyses sent the to ye warre, euen a thousande of euery tribe, & with them Phinees the sonne of Eleazar the priest to the warre, and the holy vessels, & the trumpets to blowe were in his hande.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Avenge: Numbers 31:3, Numbers 25:17, Numbers 25:18, Deuteronomy 32:35, Judges 16:24, Judges 16:28-30, Psalms 94:1-3, Isaiah 1:24, Nahum 1:2, Luke 21:22, Romans 12:19, Romans 13:4, 1 Thessalonians 4:6, Hebrews 10:30, Revelation 6:10, Revelation 18:20, Revelation 19:2

the Midianites: Numbers 25:6, Numbers 25:14-18, Genesis 25:1-4, Exodus 2:16

gathered: Numbers 27:13, Genesis 15:15, Genesis 25:8, Genesis 25:17, Judges 2:10, Acts 13:36

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:2 - Midian Genesis 37:28 - Midianites Numbers 20:24 - gathered Joshua 10:13 - until 1 Kings 11:18 - Midian 1 Chronicles 1:32 - Midian 2 Chronicles 6:34 - by the way Psalms 149:7 - General Habakkuk 3:7 - Midian

Cross-References

Genesis 4:5
But vnto Cain and to his offeryng he had no respect: for the whiche cause Cain was exceedyng wroth, and his countenaunce abated.
Genesis 30:27
To whom Laban aunswered: I pray thee, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght [tary]: for I haue proued that the Lorde blessed me for thy sake.
Genesis 31:9
Thus hath God taken away the increase of your fathers flocke, and geuen it to me.
Genesis 31:11
And the angell of God spake vnto me in a dreame, saying: Iacob? And I aunswered: here am I.
Exodus 4:10
Moyses sayd vnto the Lorde: Oh my Lord, I am neither yesterday nor yer yesterday a man eloquet, neither sence thou hast spoken vnto thy seruaunt: but I am slowe mouthed, & slowe tounged.
Deuteronomy 19:4
For this cause must the slayer flee thyther, that he may lyue: Who so kylleth his neighbour ignorauntly, and hated hym not in tyme passed:
Deuteronomy 28:54
So that it shall greeue the man (that is tender and exceeding delicate among you) to loke on his brother, and vpon his wyfe that lieth in his bosome, and on the remnaunt of his chyldren which he hath yet left,
1 Samuel 19:7
And Ionathan called Dauid, & Ionathan shewed hym all those wordes: & Ionathan brought Dauid to Saul, & he was in his presence as in tymes past.
Daniel 3:19
Then was Nabuchodonozor full of indignation, so that the countenaunce of his face chaunged vpon Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: therefore he charged and commaunded that they should heate the fornace, one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites,.... For the injury they had done them, by sending their daughters among them, who enticed them to commit uncleanness with them, and then drew them into the worship of their idols, which brought the wrath of God upon them, and for which 24,000 persons were slain. Now, though the Moabites had a concern in this affair as well as the Midianites, yet they were spared; which some think was for the sake of Lot, from whom they descended; but why not the Midianites for the sake of Abraham, whose offspring they were by Keturah? Jarchi says, they were spared because of Ruth, who was to spring from them; and so she might, and yet vengeance be taken on great numbers of them: but the truer reason seems to be, either because the sin of the Moabites was not yet full, and they were reserved for a later punishment; or rather because they were not the principal actors in the above affair; but the Midianites, who seem to have advised Balak at first to send for Balaam to curse Israel, and who harboured that soothsayer after he had been dismissed by Balak, and to whom he gave his wicked counsel, and which they readily followed, and industriously pursued:

afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people; or die, see

Numbers 27:13, it being some satisfaction to him to see the good land, as he did from Abarim, and the Israelites avenged on their enemies before his death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Midianites - The Moabites are not included. It would thus seem that it was the Midianites, and they only, who deliberately set themselves to work the corruption of Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 31:2. Gathered unto thy people. — Where? Not in the grave surely. Moses was gathered with none of them, his burial-place no man ever knew. "But being gathered unto one's people means dying." It does imply dying, but it does not mean this only. The truth is, God considers all those who are dead to men in a state of conscious existence in another world. Therefore he calls himself the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob; now God is not the God of the dead, but of the living; because all LIVE to HIM, whether dead to men or not. Moses therefore was to be gathered to his people-to enter into that republic of Israel which, having died in the faith, fear, and love of God, were now living in a state of conscious blessedness beyond the confines of the grave. Genesis 25:8; Genesis 25:8, and "Genesis 49:33".


 
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