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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 ...
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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...
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In this ideal picture of the war nothing is said of the place where
the battle was fought, nor the length of time occupied by it, nor any
details of the fight. It was a rapid and sweeping conquest....
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_The utter destruction of every Midianite_, with the exception of the
virgins who are to be kept as spoil....
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AND THEY WARRED AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, &C.— The twelve thousand men
chosen out by Moses marched against the Midianites. The battle they
gave them was less an ordinary combat, than an execution of jus...
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IV. THE LAST EVENTS IN TRANS-JORDAN (NUMBERS 31; NUMBERS 32; NUMBERS
33:1-42)
A. ATTACK UPON THE MIDIANITES vv. 1-12
TEXT
Numbers 31:1. And th
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_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOOK ALL THE WOMEN OF MIDIAN CAPTIVES, AND
THEIR LITTLE ONES, AND TOOK THE SPOIL OF ALL THEIR CATTLE, AND ALL
THEIR FLOCKS, AND ALL THEIR GOODS._
The children of Israel to...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יִּשְׁבּ֧וּ בְנֵי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת
־נְשֵׁ֥י...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Possessions. Literally, "all that they could, they plundered." It
seems they did not advance very far into the country; or many saved
themselves by flight; for we find the Madianites soon powerful en...
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The destruction of all the men of Midian means, no doubt, all that
were then in Midian; for probably some of the subjects of Midian might
be from home, or in Moab. And the wars which Israel had with M...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOOK [ALL] THE WOMEN OF MIDIAN
CAPTIVES,.... The word "all" is not in the original text, nor should
it be supplied; for if all had been taken, and carried captive, and
put t...
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And the children of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captives,
and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all
their flocks, and all their goods.
Ver. 9. _Took all the wom...
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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...
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And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives and
their little ones, the small children of both sexes, AND TOOK THE
SPOIL OF ALL THEIR CATTLE, AND ALL THEIR FLOCKS, AND ALL THEIR GO...
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THE OVERTHROW OF MIDIAN...
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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...
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7-12 The Israelites slew the Kings of Midian. They slew Balaam. God's
overruling providence brought him thither, and their just vengeance
found him. Had he himself rightly believed what he had said o...
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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...
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Numbers 31:9 children H1121 Israel H3478 women H802 Midian H4080
captive H7617 (H8799) ones H2945 spoil H962 ...
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(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 ...
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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...
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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...
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_They warred against the Midianites._
THE VENGEANCE OF JEHOVAH ON MIDIAN
I. That in the administration of the Divine government the punishment
of sin is certain.
1. The sin which the Midianites had...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Chronicles 28:8; Deuteronomy 20:14; Numbers
31:15;...