Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
Ver. 23. And all that abideth not the fire.] We must deal with every man, saith one from this text, according to his temper; indulge them what lawfully you may. Quod tamen accipiendum est cum grano salis.
Verse Numbers 31:23. _THE WATER OF SEPARATION_] The _water_ in which the _ashes of the red heifer_ were mingled; Numbers 8:7, Numbers 8:7; _"_...
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 PURIFICATION OF THE ISRAELITE ARMY AFTER THE SLAUGHTER. The purification of warriors after a battle, practised in antiquity as by savage peoples to-day, was due, not to any desire for physical cle...
WATER OF SEPARATION. See Numbers 19....
_the water of_ IMPURITY] Its preparation and use are described in ch. 19. _to go_ THROUGH WATER] i.e. ordinary pure water, not the -water of impurity" as R.V. suggests. Objects which will stand the fi...
Further injunctions given by Eleazar, drawing a distinction between objects which could not stand purification by fire, and metals which could....
_The purification necessary after contact with the dead_. Moses bids all who are defiled to remain outside the camp for seven days and perform the requisite ritual of purification....
AND ELEAZAR—SAID—_THIS IS THE ORDINANCE OF THE LAW_— i.e. "This is a law to be observed hereafter by all who go to war." The law before was, that he, who touched a dead body should be purified with wa...
C. PURIFICATION OF THE SOLDIERS AND THE BOOTY vv. 21-24 TEXT Numbers 31:21, And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord co...
_AND PURIFY ALL YOUR RAIMENT, AND ALL THAT IS MADE OF SKINS, AND ALL WORK OF GOATS' HAIR, AND ALL THINGS MADE OF WOOD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
31:23 purified (a-24) See ch. 19.12. through (i-4) Lit. 'that which enters into.'...
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...
כָּל ־דָּבָ֞ר אֲשֶׁר ־יָבֹ֣א בָ † אֵ֗שׁ...
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...
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be (h) purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fir...
_Expiation, with which even the vessels which had been through the fire, were to be purified, or washed, as the Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., observe. (Calmet) --- Moses perhaps gave this ordinance by word...
The law respecting uncleanness had so much in it of allusion to the gospel, that it is not to be wondered at we meet with it upon every occasion. But Reader! how delightful is it to see our privileges...
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...
EVERY THING THAT MAY ABIDE THE FIRE, YE SHALL MAKE IT GO THROUGH THE FIRE,.... Either through the smoke of the fire, and so be purified by suffumigation; or be put into the fire itself, where though t...
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 PURIFICATION OF THE ARMY...
everything that may abide the fire, all metals that could withstand the power of the fire as they were placed in it for purposes of purification, YE SHALL MAKE IT GO THROUGH THE FIRE, AND IT SHALL BE...
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...
19-24 The Israelites had to purify themselves according to the law, and to abide without the camp seven days, though they had not contracted any moral guilt, the war being just and lawful, and command...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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 31:23 everything H1697 endure H935 (H8799) fire H784 through H5674 (H8686) fire H784 clean H2891 ...
(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 31:19 Though the war had been ordered by God, it still made the soldiers unclean. They and the spoils had to be purified. ⇐...
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 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 3:21; 1 Peter 4:12; Ep