Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 31:14
Because they had spared those who were most criminal, and who by the law of God and of nature were worthy of death.
Because they had spared those who were most criminal, and who by the law of God and of nature were worthy of death.
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 EXTERMINATION OF THE MIDIANITES. This story of a war of extermination, waged to avenge the wiles practised on Israel by Midian (as described in Numbers 25:6) is marked by various fanciful elements...
WROTH. Moses meek in his own matters, but not in Jehovah's. In these there was. "godly jealousy". BATTLE. Hebrew battle of the war. "the [battle] array (or host) of the war", or martial host....
_The utter destruction of every Midianite_, with the exception of the virgins who are to be kept as spoil....
AND MOSES WAS WROTH WITH THE OFFICERS— The Israelites obeyed the order in general; but, with a false pity, saved the lives of those Midianitish women whom they ought to have treated with the utmost ri...
B. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THEIR DISPOSAL vv. 13-20 TEXT Numbers 31:13. And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14. And Moses was...
_AND MOSES WAS WROTH WITH THE OFFICERS OF THE HOST, WITH THE CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS, WHICH CAME FROM THE BATTLE._ Moses was wroth. The displeasure of the great leader, th...
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 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...
וַ יִּקְצֹ֣ף מֹשֶׁ֔ה עַ֖ל פְּקוּדֵ֣י הֶ חָ֑יִ
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 DESTRUCTION OF THE MIDIANITES Numbers 31:1 In reading such a chapter as this we must remember that the Bible is the history of the slow advance of a nation toward the knowledge of God, and its pr...
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...
It is truly interesting to see the zeal of the faithful. How jealous for the honour of GOD was Moses? In regarding the LORD'S glory, he passeth by all lesser considerations. Angels burn with an holy f...
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...
14_And Moses was wroth with the officers. _A successful issue usually obtains pardon for any errors in performance, nay, in a manner covers them, so that they are not taken into account; but, although...
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...
AND MOSES WAS WROTH WITH THE OFFICERS OF THE HOST,.... The general officers who had the command of the army, for there does not appear to be anyone that was one general over the whole, otherwise the d...
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, [with] the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. Ver. 14. _And Moses was wroth._] For all the joy he coul...
_Went forth to meet them_ Partly to put respect upon them, and congratulate them on their happy success; and partly to prevent the pollution of the camp by the untimely entrance of the warriors into i...
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...
THE MANNER OF DEALING WITH THE CAPTIVES...
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds which came from the battle....
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...
BATTLE: _ Heb._ host of war...
13-18 The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon...
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 31:14 Moses H4872 angry H7107 (H8799) officers H6485 (H8803) army H2428 captains H8269 thousands...
(I) THE SENTENCE PASSED AND CARRIED OUT ON THE LOCAL MIDIANITES (NUMBERS 31:1). Analysis. a The command to avenge Yahweh on Midian (Numbers 31:1). b The judgment of Yahweh in the defeat of Midian ...
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 31:13 Normally in wars outside Canaan, the women were spared (Deuteronomy 20:14). But because these WOMEN had seduced the Israeli
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...
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...
1 Kings 20:42; 1 Samuel 15:13; 1 Samuel 15:14; 2 Kings 13:19;...