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Números 31:10

Después prendieron fuego a todas las ciudades donde habitaban y a todos sus campamentos.

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

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y abrasaron con fuego todas sus ciudades, aldeas y castillos.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y abrasaron con fuego todas sus ciudades, aldeas y castillos.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y todas sus ciudades por sus habitaciones, y todos sus palacios quemaron a fuego.

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

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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