Numbers Chapter 31 verse 2 Holy Bible
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
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Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.
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Avenge the children of Israel upon the Midianites; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy peoples.
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Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
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Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered to thy people.
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Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people.
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`Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites -- afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites. The war was to be distinctly one of vengeance on the part of Israel. On the grave moral question which arises out of this war, and of the manner in which it was carried on, see the note at the end of the chapter. Afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. It is quite possible that Moses himself had been reluctant to order the expedition against Midian, either because it involved so much bloodshed, or, more probably, because he foresaw the difficulty which actually arose about the women of Midian. If so, he was here reminded that his place was to obey, and that his work on earth was not done so long as the Midianites remained unpunished.