Numbers 31:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Judg 21:11 : 11 And 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.
  • 1 Kgs 11:15-16 : 15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom; 16 (For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)
  • 1 Sam 27:9 : 9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.
  • Deut 20:13-14 : 13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy. 14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.
  • Judg 6:1-2 : 1 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years. 2 And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.
  • Judg 6:33 : 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

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  • Num 31:1-6
    6 verses
    82%

    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.

    4From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.

    5So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.

    6And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.

  • Num 31:8-11
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    82%

    8They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

    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;

    10And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

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

  • Num 25:16-17
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    78%

    16Then the Lord said to Moses,

    17Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

  • Num 31:17
    78%

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

  • Num 31:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

    15And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

  • Judg 21:10-11
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    75%

    10So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

    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.

  • Deut 20:13
    74%

    13And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

  • Num 25:5
    74%

    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.

  • Judg 3:29
    73%

    29At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

  • Exod 32:27
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    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.

  • Deut 2:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

    16So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,

  • Num 31:31
    72%

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

  • Ps 83:9
    72%

    9Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

  • Judg 7:22-23
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    72%

    22And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.

    23And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.

  • Josh 11:12
    71%

    12And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.

  • Exod 4:19
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    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 32:20
    71%

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

  • 1 Chr 5:22
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    22And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

  • Judg 6:16
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    16Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

  • Josh 13:21
    71%

    21And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land.

  • Deut 31:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

    5The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.

  • Judg 7:25
    71%

    25And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.

  • Num 3:16
    71%

    16So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.

  • Judg 6:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

    4And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

  • Josh 11:20
    70%

    20For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • Judg 6:7
    70%

    7And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,

  • Num 31:27
    70%

    27And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

  • 2 Kgs 3:24
    70%

    24But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

  • Judg 6:1
    70%

    1And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    70%

    3Go 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.