Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Numbers 31:17
Now therefore kill every male among the (g) little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
(g) That is, all the boy children.
Now therefore kill every male among the (g) little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
(g) That is, all the boy children.
Verse Numbers 31:17. _KILL EVERY MALE AMONG THE LITTLE ONES_] For this action I account simply on the principle that God, who is the author and supporter of life, has a right to dispose of it _when_...
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...
HIM. male....
Commands to complete the destruction of the enemy. All male children and all women who are not virgins are to be killed in cold blood. This cruel command ascribed to Moses dates from an age when the J...
_The utter destruction of every Midianite_, with the exception of the virgins who are to be kept as spoil....
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 SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE SAVED ALL THE WOMEN ALIVE?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
וְ עַתָּ֕ה הִרְג֥וּ כָל ־זָכָ֖ר בַּ †...
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...
Of children. Women and children, ordinarily speaking, were not to be killed in war, Deuteronomy xx. 14. But the great lord of life and death was pleased to order it otherwise in the present case, in d...
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...
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...
NOW THEREFORE KILL EVERY MALE AMONG THE LITTLE ONES,.... Which they had taken and brought captives, Numbers 31:9 AND KILL EVERY WOMAN THAT HATH KNOWN MAN BY LYING WITH HIM; who might be such, at leas...
_Kill every male among the little ones_ Which they were forbidden to do to other people, (Deuteronomy 20:14,) except the Canaanites, to whom this people had equalled themselves by their horrid crimes;...
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...
Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, to prevent the reestablishment of the nation, AND KILL EVERY WOMAN THAT HATH KNOWN MAN BY LYING WITH HIM, in carnal intercourse, for there was th...
THE MANNER OF DEALING WITH THE CAPTIVES...
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...
HIM: _ Heb._ a male...
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...
AMONG THE LITTLE ONES, which they were forbidden to do to other people, DEUTERONOMY 20:14, except the Canaanites, to whom this people had equalled themselves by their horrid crimes; and therefore it i...
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 31:17 kill H2026 (H8798) male H2145 ones H2945 kill H2026 (H8798) woman H802 known H3045 ...
(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...
Judges 21:11; Judges 21:12...
The little ones — Which they were forbidden to do to other people, Deuteronomy 20:14, except the Canaanites, to whom this people had equaled themselves by their horrid crimes, and therefore it is not...