Numbers 31:1
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
AVENGE. Hebrew revenge the revengement. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6).. execute due vengeance. CHILDREN. sons. AFTERWARD. Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "and afterward". BE GATHERED, &C. Compare Numbers 27:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
AVENGE THE LORD OF MIDIAN. render the vengeance of Jehovah upon Midian. Compare Ch. Numbers 25:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARMED. assigned to or for, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
PHINEHAS. Compare Numbers 25:7. INSTRUMENTS. vessels. TRUMPETS. alarm trumpets, which were also prayer trumpets. Compare Numbers 10:9; Numbers 10:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVI. Compare Joshua 13:21. FIVE KINGS: called princes or dukes of Sihon, Joshua 13:21. BALAAM. Compare Joshua 13:22. SLEW. Balaam thus did not "die the death of the righteous". Compare Numbers 23:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
BURNT. burnt up, or down. Hebrew. _saraph._ App-43. The same judgment is in store for spiritual fornication. Revelation 17:16; Revelation 18:8. CASTLES. fortified places.... [ Continue Reading ]
PREY. booty. Hebrew. _malkoah._ First occurrence. Always used of animated prey. Compare Numbers 31:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAPTIVES. Hebrew captivity. THE. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all the".... [ Continue Reading ]
MEET THEM: as Melchizedek met Abram (Genesis 14:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE. Compare Numbers 25:2. COUNSEL. word, or doctrine (Revelation 2:14). TRESPASS. Hebrew. _ma'al._ Compare App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIM. male.... [ Continue Reading ]
PERSON. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13).... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT. came, or had come ORDINANCE. statute.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and the" in each of these three instances, making the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_. IRON. Found in Egypt as early as 2800 B.C.... [ Continue Reading ]
WATER OF SEPARATION. See Numbers 19.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRIBUTE. computed value, assigned to Jehovah. Hebrew. _mekes._ Occurs only in this chapter. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ PERSONS. men. Hebrew. _'adam._... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE IT. An extra portion in addition to Deuteronomy 18:1; Deuteronomy 18:2 and Numbers 18:19. So Abram, Genesis 14:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and of the". TABERNACLE. habitation. Hebrew. _mishkan._ App-40.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEEVES. Old English (from the French), for oxen.... [ Continue Reading ]
PERSONS. Hebrew, plural of _nephesh._ MAN. male.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO WAR. to, or, for the host.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PERSONS. Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis._ App-6. PERSONS. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (plural) App-13. Literally soul of man.... [ Continue Reading ]
GAVE THEM. See 1 Chronicles 9:2. Hebrew. _nathan,_ to give. Hence their name, "Nethinim. ... [ Continue Reading ]
OBLATION. This was voluntary. The levy in Numbers 31:25, &c, was commanded. See Leviticus 2:4. JEWELS. instruments or vessels. ATONEMENT. See note on Exodus 29:33. SOULS. Hebrew, plural of _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFERING. heave offering. See App-43, and note on Exodus 29:27. OFFERED UP. heaved. SHEKELS. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
TABERNACLE. tent. Hebrew. _'ohel_. See App-40.... [ Continue Reading ]