George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Numbers 31:32
Spoil. Hebrew, "the remains of the spoil," which had not been consumed by the 12,000. (Calmet)
Spoil. Hebrew, "the remains of the spoil," which had not been consumed by the 12,000. (Calmet)
Verse Numbers 31:32. _THE BOOTY_] It appears from the enumeration here that the Israelites, in this war against the Midianites, took 32,000 female prisoners, 61,000 asses, 72,000 beeves, 675,000 shee...
Compare Numbers 31:11, and render “And the prey” (i. e., the live prey) “in addition to the spoil which the men of war seized, etc.” The “spoil” is described in Numbers 31:50. The number of sheep, bee...
7. THE WAR AGAINST THE MIDIANITES CHAPTER 31 _ 1. The command to fight Midian (Numbers 31:1)_ 2. The war (Numbers 31:7) 3. The cleansing (Numbers 31:13) 4. The spoil taken ...
THE DIVISION OF THE BOOTY. The principle of equal division between those who went forth to fight, and those who remained in the camp was observed by David (1 Samuel 30:22), who seems to have been the...
_The apportionment of the spoil_. Those who fought and those who remained behind were to receive equal shares. This was an ancient custom, which was traced to the action of David (1 Samuel 30:24 f.)....
_over and above the booty_ THE REMAINDER OF _the booty_. The revisers connected the words with Numbers 31:53 (see marg. there), but that is concerned only with the private looting of gold ornaments. H...
AND THE BOOTY, BEING THE REST, &C.— Hence it appears, that Midian must have been an extremely populous and fertile country; for the sum total of the divided booty was as in the following table, wherei...
D. DIVISION OF THE BOOTY vv. 25-54 TEXT Numbers 31:25. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 26. Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and t...
_AND THE BOOTY, BEING THE REST OF THE PREY WHICH THE MEN OF WAR HAD CAUGHT, WAS SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND AND SEVENTY THOUSAND AND FIVE THOUSAND SHEEP,_ The booty, being the rest of the prey. Some of the...
31:32 sheep, (b-22) Strictly, 'small cattle,' sheep and goats....
WAR AGAINST MIDIAN This chapter contains an account of the fulfilment of the decree of extermination passed upon the Midianites as being the occasion of Israel's apostasy in the plains of Moab: see o...
THE REST OF THE PREY] RV 'over and above the booty': see Numbers 31:50. 48-54. The officers make a voluntary offering as a thanksgiving for victory....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 31 *ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST THE COUNTRY CALLED MIDIAN – NUMBERS 31:1-12 V1 The *LORD said to Moses, V2...
AND THE BOOTY, BEING THE REST OF THE PREY... — The reference may be to the residue of the captives after the slaughter of all the males and of a large number of the women, and to the cattle which were...
וַ יְהִי֙ הַ מַּלְקֹ֔וחַ יֶ֣תֶר הַ בָּ֔ז
WAR AND SETTLEMENT 1. THE WAR WITH MIDIAN Numbers 31:1 THE command to vex and smite the Midianites Numbers 25:16 has already been considered. Israel had not the spiritual power which would have just...
THE DISPOSITION OF THE SPOILS OF WAR Numbers 31:21 This law, which subjected the victors to a whole week of separation and to special purification, instead of an immediate welcome into the camp, was...
Here we have the story of the end of Balaam. It took place in connection with a war directly resulting from the sin of the people committed through the influence of Balaam. They had corrupted the nati...
I think it not necessary to break the chain of those verses, when one general observation may be properly made from the whole taken together. It is worthy of remark, how graciously the LORD, by taking...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
War is found in the wilderness (though it is not characteristic of it) whenever we fall into the snares the enemy there lays for us. There are always conflicts in the heavenly places in order to the e...
Ver. 32-47. AND THE BOOTY, BEING THE REST OF THE PREY WHICH THE MEN OF WAR HAD CAUGHT,.... The remainder of it, besides what they had eaten in their return from the war, and during their seven days' s...
1 The Midianites are spoyled, and Balaam slaine. 13 Moses is wroth with the officers, for sauing the women aliue. 19 How the souldiers with their captiues and spoile, are to be purified. 25 The pro...
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, after deducting the persons that were slain by the command of God, and the animals that were consumed during the return to ca...
THE DIVISION OF THE SPOILS...
VENGEANCE ON MIDIAN (vs.1-11) The Midianites had been guilty of seducing Israel, and God required that account to be settled. This was the last charge laid upon Moses before his death (v.2). His own...
25-47 Whatever we have, God justly claims a part. Out of the people's share God required one in fifty, but out of the soldiers' share only one in five hundred. The less opportunity we have of honourin...
THE REST OF THE PREY; all which was now left of the prey. It is so expressed because they took more, but some of the persons were since killed, NUMBERS 31:17, and some of the cattle was spent for the...
We have here the closing scene of Moses' _ official_ life; as in Deuteronomy 34:1-12 we have the closing scene of his _ personal_ history. "and the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children o...
Numbers 31:32 booty H4455 remaining H3499 plunder H957 men H5971 war H6635 taken H962 (H8804) six H8337 hundred...
THE DIVISION BETWEEN THE MEN OF WAR, YAHWEH (THE PRIESTS), THE PEOPLE AND THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 31:32). The assessing and dividing of the spoils follows a sequential pattern rather than the usual chia...
CONTENTS: The judgment of Midian. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Balaam. CONCLUSION: Our worst enemies are those that draw us to sin. Over all such enemies there is absolute victory for those who take side...
Numbers 31:2. _Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites._ If it were just to cut off twenty four thousand of the Israelites for the awful feast, apostasy, and fornication at Baal-peor, it was e...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 31:1__ The Midianites were nomadic people who lived in the deserts on the outside edges of Canaan. They were associated with the Ishmaelites, Amalekites, and Moabites. It is th...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 31:25 Half of the spoils of war went to the soldiers and half to those who stayed behind (v. Numbers 31:27; compare...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Moses had already received command to smite the Midianites (Numbers 25:16); and in this chapter we have the order given to him to execute that command, and the narrativ...
Then as we get into Numbers chapter thirty-one, the Lord orders the destruction of the Midianites. Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward thou shall be gathered to your people (Nu...
Numbers 31:32...