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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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AS. according as....
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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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_they slew every male_ An imaginative description of success. If it
were historically true, Midian would have disappeared from history;
but they are found not long afterwards as one of Israel's most
t...
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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 THEY WARRED AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES;
AND THEY SLEW ALL THE MALES._
They slew all the males. This was in accordance with a divine order
in all such cases (Deuteronomy...
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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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THEY SLEW ALL THE MALES. — The reference appears to be to those who
were engaged in the war. The words do not refer to the whole of the
male population, as appears from Numbers 31:17; and it is probab...
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וַֽ יִּצְבְּאוּ֙ עַל ־מִדְיָ֔ן כַּ
אֲשֶׁ֛ר צִ
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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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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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7._And they warred against the Midianites. _It was a signal example of
obedience, that 12,000 men did not refuse to engage in a war which was
full of danger, when it was reasonable for them to object...
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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 THEY WARRED AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, AS THE LORD COMMANDED
MOSES,.... Whether the Midianites came out against them with an army,
and there was a pitched battle between them, is not certain; however...
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_They slew all the males_ That is, they slew those who were in the
fight, and who did not save themselves by flight. As a nation they had
forfeited their lives to the laws of God, and he, as judge of...
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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 they warred against the Midianites, whom they presumably took
unawares, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES; AND THEY SLEW ALL THE MALES,
since it was a war of revenge, of extermination....
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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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Namely, all whom they took in that war, or all who lived in those
parts; for it is probable (and was then very usual) some colonies of
them were sent forth to remoter places, which therefore had no ha...
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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 31:7 warred H6633 (H8799) Midianites H4080 LORD H3068
commanded H6680 (H8765) Moses H4872 killed H2026 ...
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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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1 Kings 11:15; 1 Kings 11:16; 1 Samuel 27:9; Deuteronomy 20:13;...
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All the males — Namely all who lived in those parts, for colonies of
them, were sent forth to remoter places, which therefore had no hand
either in their former sin, or in this present ruling. And her...