Numbers 31:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

Numbers 31:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:15-16
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; …
Judges 21:11
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
1 Samuel 27:9
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
Deuteronomy 20:13-14
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: …
Judges 6:1-2
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

Here is, 1. The descent which this little army of Israelites made, under the divine commission, conduct, and command, upon the country of Midian. They warred against the Midianites. It is very probable that they first published their manifesto, showing the reasons of the war, and requiring them to give up the ringleaders of the mischief to justice; for such afterwards was the law (Deut. 20:10), an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. they slew all the males--This was in accordance with a divine order in all such cases (De 20:13). But the destruction appears to have been only partial--limited to those who were in the neighborhood of the Hebrew camp and who had been accomplices in the villainous plot of Baal-peor (Nu 25:1-3), while a large portion of the Midianites were absent on their pastoral wanderings or had saved themsel…