Numbers Chapter 31 verse 10 Holy Bible
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
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And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,
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and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.
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And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
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And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
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All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
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and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Their goodly castles. טִירֹתם. Septuagint, ἐπαύλεις. This word, which occurs only here and in Genesis 25:16, no doubt signifies the pastoral villages, constructed partly of rude stone walls, partly of goats-hair cloth, which the nomadic tribes of that country have used from time immemorial. Probably these were the proper habitations of the Midianites; the "cities" would have belonged to the previous inhabitants of the land.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) All their cities wherein they dwelt.--Better, all their cities in their dwelling-places. This expression is explained by a reference to Joshua 13:21, from which it appears that the five kings or chiefs of the Midianites who are mentioned in Numbers 5:8 dwelt in the territory which Sihon, king of the Amorites, had wrested from the Moabites. The Midianites were a nomad people, and were not likely to have built cities for themselves.