Numbers 31:15

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And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.
  • Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us. 9 Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:
  • Deut 20:13 : 13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: 17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders: 18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
  • Josh 6:21 : 21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.
  • Josh 8:25 : 25 On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.
  • Josh 10:40 : 40 So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.
  • Josh 11:14 : 14 And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

    17So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

    18But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

  • Num 31:14
    79%

    14And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.

  • Num 25:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

    16Then the Lord said to Moses,

    17Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1Then the Lord said to Moses,

    2Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

    3So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

  • Num 31:7
    76%

    7And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

  • Num 25:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.

    6Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • Num 31:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25And the Lord said to Moses,

    26Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    9The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

    17But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.

    18And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?

  • Num 25:10
    73%

    10And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:19
    73%

    19And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

  • Num 27:15
    73%

    15Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • Num 31:11
    73%

    11They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

  • Num 5:11
    72%

    11And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 14:3
    72%

    3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

  • Judg 21:11
    72%

    11And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.

  • Num 31:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

    32Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

  • Num 15:17
    71%

    17And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 32:20
    71%

    20Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

  • Num 31:49
    71%

    49And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;

  • Num 15:1
    71%

    1And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 31:42
    71%

    42And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

  • Num 31:47
    71%

    47Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

  • Lev 24:13
    70%

    13And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 5:21
    70%

    21And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

  • Deut 31:25
    70%

    25Moses said to the Levites who were responsible for taking up the ark of the Lord's agreement,

  • Exod 1:22
    70%

    22And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

  • Num 5:5
    70%

    5And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 3:44
    70%

    44And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 15:37
    70%

    37And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 26:3
    70%

    3So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  • Exod 32:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

    27And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.

  • Num 27:6
    70%

    6And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 31:35
    70%

    35And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

  • Num 14:15
    70%

    15Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,