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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 31:1-6

Here, I. The Lord of hosts gives orders to Moses to make war upon the Midianites, and his commission no doubt justified this war, though it will not serve to justify the like without such commission. The Midianites were the posterity of Abraham by Keturah, Gen. 25:2. Some of them settled south of Canaan, among whom Jethro lived, and they retained the worship of the true God; but these were settled east of Canaan, and had fallen into idolatry, neighbours to, and in confederacy with, the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 31:7-12

Here is, 1. The descent which this little army of Israelites made, under the divine commission, conduct, and command, upon the country of Midian. They warred against the Midianites. It is very probable that they first published their manifesto, showing the reasons of the war, and requiring them to give up the ringleaders of the mischief to justice; for such afterwards was the law (Deut. 20:10), and such the practice, Jdg. 20:12; 13. But the Midianites justifying what they had done, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 31:6

And Moses sent them to the war ,.... Being mustered and armed: a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the war ; which looks as if Phinehas was the general of this army; for Moses went not to the war, and no mention is made of Joshua, nor might it be proper for him, he being the successor of Moses, who was quickly to die; but it seems rather that there was no one person that had the command of the whole, but every captain commanded his own company;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 31:7

And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses ,.... Whether the Midianites came out against them with an army, and there was a pitched battle between them, is not certain; however the Israelites committed acts of hostility upon them, by entering their cities, plundering their houses, and slaying the inhabitants of them; the Targum of Jonathan is,"they warred against Midian, and surrounded it in the three corners of it, as the Lord commanded Moses;'for, as Maimonides ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 31:6

A thousand of every tribe - Twelve thousand men in the whole. And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar; some think he was made general in this expedition, but this is not likely. The ark and its contents must proceed to this battle, because the battle was the Lord's, and he dwelt between the cherubim over the ark; and Phinehas, who had before got a grant in the eternal priesthood, was chosen to accompany the ark in place of his father Eleazar, who was probably now too far advanced in years to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 31:7

Verse 7 7.And they warred against the Midianites. It was a signal example of obedience, that 12,000 men did not refuse to engage in a war which was full of danger, when it was reasonable for them to object that it was not right for them to be exposed to butchery, as it were, whilst the people sat idly in the camp, who by their great numbers and with little trouble would have routed and overcome the enemy. It was therefore no common proof of piety, that they obeyed God’s command, and sought for... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Numbers 31:6

Phinehas - He was marked out as the fitting director of the expedition by his conduct (compare Numbers 25:7-13) in the matter of Zimri and Cozbi.With the holy instruments, and the trumpets - Or rather, “with the holy instruments, to wit, the trumpets,” for the trumpets themselves seem to be the instruments intended. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 31:6

Numbers 31:6. Them and Phinehas Who had the charge, not of the army, as general, (an office never committed to a priest in all the Old Testament,) but of the holy instruments, and was sent to encourage and quicken them in their enterprise. The holy instruments The holy breast plate, wherein was the Urim and Thummim, which was easily carried, and was very useful in war, upon many emergent occasions. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 31:7-8

Numbers 31:7-8. They slew all the males That is, they slew those who were in the fight, and who did not save themselves by flight. As a nation they had forfeited their lives to the laws of God, and he, as judge of all the earth, had given command that the sentence of his laws should be executed on the guilty. Le Clerc properly observes, that there was this material difference between the wars of other nations and those of the Jews, that the former followed the bent of their own passions;... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Numbers 31:1-54

Judgment on Midian (31:1-54)God now sent Israel to carry out his judgment on the Midianites (and Balaam with them) for the evil they did to Israel at Peor (see 25:1-9,14-17). Since it was a ‘holy’ war, the person who led the Israelite forces was not the army general Joshua, but the priest Phinehas (see 25:10-13). The Israelites were to destroy the Midianite fighting forces and burn their settlements. All captives and goods seized in battle were to be given to God, represented by the high... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 31:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 31:7-12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 31:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 31:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 31:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 31:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Numbers 31:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 31:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 31:7-8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Numbers 31:1-54

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