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Numbers Chapter 31

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In Numbers 31 the Israelites fight the Canaanite kings Sihon of Bashan and Og of Bashan, who had been raiding their territory. The battle ends with the death of both kings and the Israelites taking the land as their own. This chapter highlights God’s provision of victory and the fulfillment of the promise to give the land to the Israelites.

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(1) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
(2) Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
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Numbers 31:3Numbers 25:17Numbers 25:18Deuteronomy 32:35Judges 16:24Judges 16:28Judges 16:29Judges 16:30Psalms 94:1Psalms 94:2Psalms 94:3Isaiah 1:24

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(3) And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
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Exodus 17:9Exodus 17:10Exodus 17:11Exodus 17:12Exodus 17:13Numbers 25:11Numbers 25:13Exodus 17:16Leviticus 26:25Judges 5:2Judges 5:23II Kings 9:7

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Ephesians 4:11Isaiah 8:9II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23Mark 4:8

(4) Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
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Leviticus 26:8Judges 7:2I Samuel 14:6

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I Chronicles 6:62I Chronicles 6:63Joshua 21:6Numbers 31:6I Chronicles 5:18Numbers 13:2

(5) So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
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Revelation 7:5Revelation 7:6Revelation 7:7Revelation 7:8Numbers 7:87Joshua 21:7

(6) And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
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Numbers 25:7Numbers 25:8Numbers 25:9Numbers 25:10Numbers 25:11Numbers 25:12Numbers 25:13Numbers 14:44Numbers 33:20Numbers 33:21Numbers 33:22Exodus 25:9

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I Chronicles 5:18I Chronicles 12:33Numbers 10:9I Samuel 8:12I Kings 2:5I Chronicles 12:37

(7) And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
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Deuteronomy 20:13Deuteronomy 20:14Judges 21:11I Samuel 27:9I Kings 11:15I Kings 11:16Judges 6:1Judges 6:2Judges 6:33

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Judges 7:25

(8) And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
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Numbers 22:4Joshua 13:21Joshua 13:22Numbers 25:15Numbers 25:18Numbers 22:10Numbers 24:25Psalms 9:16Psalms 10:2I Timothy 6:9I Timothy 6:10II Peter 2:15

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Joshua 13:21Judges 7:25I Chronicles 11:23Matthew 25:20Judges 16:30II Samuel 23:20

(9) And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
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Numbers 31:15Numbers 31:16Deuteronomy 20:14II Chronicles 28:5II Chronicles 28:8II Chronicles 28:9II Chronicles 28:10

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Deuteronomy 20:14Genesis 47:17Numbers 32:26Deuteronomy 3:19Ezekiel 38:13Esther 8:11

(10) And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
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Joshua 6:24I Samuel 30:1I Kings 9:16Isaiah 1:7Revelation 18:8

(11) And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
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Deuteronomy 20:14Joshua 8:2

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Judges 5:30Jeremiah 30:16Ezekiel 14:15Isaiah 33:23Ezekiel 38:13

(12) And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
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Numbers 22:1

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Numbers 26:3Numbers 26:63Numbers 33:48Numbers 33:50Numbers 35:1Numbers 36:13

(13) And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
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Genesis 14:17I Samuel 15:12I Samuel 30:21Numbers 31:12Numbers 31:22Numbers 31:23Numbers 31:24Numbers 5:2Numbers 19:11

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Psalms 68:27Exodus 33:7

(14) And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
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Numbers 12:3Exodus 32:19Exodus 32:22Leviticus 10:16I Samuel 15:13I Samuel 15:14I Kings 20:42II Kings 13:19Ephesians 4:26

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Deuteronomy 1:15Numbers 31:48I Chronicles 28:1I Chronicles 26:26II Samuel 24:4Numbers 31:52

(15) And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
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Deuteronomy 2:34Deuteronomy 20:13Deuteronomy 20:16Deuteronomy 20:17Deuteronomy 20:18Joshua 6:21Joshua 8:25Joshua 10:40Joshua 11:14I Samuel 15:3Psalms 137:8Psalms 137:9

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Judges 21:14

(16) Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
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Numbers 24:14Numbers 25:1Numbers 25:2Numbers 25:3Proverbs 23:27Ecclesiastes 7:26II Peter 2:15Revelation 2:14Numbers 25:18Deuteronomy 4:3Joshua 22:17Numbers 25:9

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Numbers 25:18Leviticus 5:15Leviticus 13:3Numbers 5:6Leviticus 13:51Leviticus 13:55

(17) Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
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Judges 21:11Judges 21:12

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Leviticus 4:24Leviticus 7:2I Samuel 17:9Matthew 5:21Matthew 10:28James 2:11

(18) But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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Leviticus 25:44Deuteronomy 20:14Deuteronomy 21:10Deuteronomy 21:11Deuteronomy 21:12Deuteronomy 21:13Deuteronomy 21:14II Chronicles 28:8II Chronicles 28:9II Chronicles 28:10Isaiah 14:2

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Isaiah 8:9

(19) And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
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Numbers 5:2Numbers 19:11Numbers 19:12Numbers 19:13Numbers 19:14Numbers 19:15Numbers 19:16Numbers 19:17Numbers 19:18Numbers 19:19Numbers 19:20Numbers 19:21

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Numbers 19:12Matthew 5:22Numbers 19:19Revelation 8:12Exodus 30:33Joshua 2:19

(20) And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
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Numbers 19:14Numbers 19:15Numbers 19:16Numbers 19:22Genesis 35:2Exodus 19:10

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Exodus 35:23Exodus 25:5Exodus 35:7I Kings 18:33

(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 commanded Moses;
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Numbers 30:16

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Numbers 31:6I Chronicles 12:33II Chronicles 13:3

(22) Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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I Chronicles 29:2Isaiah 60:17Ezekiel 22:18Ezekiel 22:20Exodus 38:17Ezekiel 27:12

(23) Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
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Isaiah 43:2Zechariah 13:9Malachi 2:2Malachi 2:3Matthew 3:11I Corinthians 3:13I Peter 1:7I Peter 4:12Revelation 3:18Numbers 8:7Numbers 19:9Numbers 19:17

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Numbers 19:9I Samuel 20:26John 15:4Leviticus 15:25

(24) And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
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Numbers 19:19Leviticus 11:25Leviticus 14:9Leviticus 15:13

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Numbers 19:19Leviticus 13:6Leviticus 13:34Leviticus 14:9Leviticus 14:8Numbers 19:12

(25) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
(26) Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
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Revelation 4:7Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4Revelation 13:15Judges 5:30

(27) And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
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Joshua 22:8I Samuel 30:4I Samuel 30:24I Samuel 30:25Psalms 68:12

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I Chronicles 12:33II Chronicles 13:3Judges 5:30

(28) And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
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Genesis 14:20Joshua 6:19Joshua 6:24II Samuel 8:11II Samuel 8:12I Chronicles 18:11I Chronicles 26:26I Chronicles 26:27Proverbs 3:9Proverbs 3:10Isaiah 18:7Isaiah 23:18

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Exodus 22:1I Samuel 25:18Job 1:3Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 12:16

(29) Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
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Numbers 18:26Exodus 29:27Deuteronomy 12:12Deuteronomy 12:19

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Exodus 25:10Exodus 37:1Exodus 29:28Numbers 15:20

(30) And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
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Numbers 31:28Numbers 18:24Numbers 18:25Numbers 18:26Numbers 18:27Numbers 18:28I Corinthians 9:13I Corinthians 9:14Numbers 3:7Numbers 3:8Numbers 3:25Numbers 3:31

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Numbers 31:47Numbers 1:53II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17Numbers 3:7Numbers 3:25

(31) And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
(32) And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
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Exodus 22:1Esther 9:16Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Numbers 31:28Numbers 31:36

(33) And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
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Numbers 7:87Numbers 7:84Numbers 31:38Revelation 7:5Revelation 7:6Revelation 7:7

(34) And threescore and one thousand asses,
(35) And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
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Numbers 31:40Judges 10:4Judges 12:9

(36) And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
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Exodus 22:1Numbers 31:43Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Numbers 31:28Numbers 31:32

(37) And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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Numbers 31:38Exodus 22:1Leviticus 27:26John 10:12I Kings 10:14II Chronicles 9:13

(38) And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
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Numbers 31:39Numbers 7:87Numbers 31:37Numbers 31:40Numbers 31:44Judges 10:4

(39) And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
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Numbers 31:38Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Numbers 31:40Numbers 31:45Judges 10:4

(40) And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
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Jeremiah 52:30Numbers 31:35Numbers 31:38Numbers 31:39Judges 10:4Judges 12:9

(41) And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Numbers 31:29Numbers 31:30Numbers 31:31Numbers 18:8Numbers 18:19Matthew 10:10I Corinthians 9:10I Corinthians 9:11I Corinthians 9:12I Corinthians 9:13I Corinthians 9:14Galatians 6:6

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Numbers 18:28Exodus 29:28Numbers 15:20

(42) And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
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I Kings 16:21Exodus 25:10Exodus 37:1

(43) (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
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Exodus 22:1Numbers 31:36Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20I Samuel 25:18Job 1:3

(44) And thirty and six thousand beeves,
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Numbers 31:38Judges 10:4Judges 12:9I Chronicles 3:4

(45) And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
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Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Numbers 31:39Judges 10:4Judges 12:9I Kings 22:42

(46) And sixteen thousand persons;)
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Numbers 31:40

(47) Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Numbers 18:21Numbers 18:22Numbers 18:23Numbers 18:24Deuteronomy 12:17Deuteronomy 12:18Deuteronomy 12:19Luke 10:1Luke 10:2Luke 10:3Luke 10:4Luke 10:5

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Numbers 31:30Numbers 1:53Revelation 4:7II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17Numbers 3:7

(48) And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
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Deuteronomy 1:15I Chronicles 28:1Numbers 31:14I Chronicles 26:26Numbers 31:52I Samuel 22:7

(49) And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
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I Samuel 30:18I Samuel 30:19Psalms 72:14John 18:9

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I Chronicles 23:32

(50) We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
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Psalms 107:15Psalms 107:21Psalms 107:22Psalms 116:12Psalms 116:17Exodus 30:12Exodus 30:15Exodus 30:16Leviticus 17:11

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(51) And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
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Numbers 7:2Numbers 7:3Numbers 7:4Numbers 7:5Numbers 7:6

(52) And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
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(53) (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
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Deuteronomy 20:14

(54) And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
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Numbers 16:40Exodus 30:16Joshua 4:7Psalms 18:49Psalms 103:1Psalms 103:2Psalms 115:1Psalms 145:7Zechariah 6:14Luke 22:19Acts 10:4

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Deuteronomy 1:15Numbers 31:48I Chronicles 28:1Numbers 31:14Numbers 31:52I Samuel 22:7

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