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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 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...
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Further injunctions given by Eleazar, drawing a distinction between
objects which could not stand purification by fire, and metals which
could....
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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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וְ כִבַּסְתֶּ֧ם בִּגְדֵיכֶ֛ם בַּ †
יֹּ֥ום הַ...
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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 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...
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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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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...
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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 YE SHALL WASH YOUR CLOTHES ON THE SEVENTH DAY,.... As the leper
did, Leviticus 14:9:
AND YE SHALL BE CLEAN, AND AFTERWARD YE SHALL COME INTO THE CAMP; into
the camp of Israel, into the camp of th...
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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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THE PURIFICATION OF THE ARMY...
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And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, as was usually done
in the ceremony of purification, AND YE SHALL BE CLEAN, AND AFTERWARD
YE SHALL COME INTO THE CAMP. To this day God can bear no un...
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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 31:24 wash H3526 (H8765) clothes H899 seventh H7637 day H3117
clean H2891 (H8804) afterward...
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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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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.
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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...