Numbers 31:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The 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;

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  • Num 31:15-16 : 15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe? 16 It 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.
  • Deut 20:14 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 28:5 : 5 So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven. 10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

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  • Num 31:10-12
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    84%

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

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

    12 And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    81%

    28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,

    29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

  • Num 31:7-8
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    7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

    8 They 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.

  • Num 31:1-3
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    79%

    1 Then the Lord said to Moses,

    2 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.

    3 So 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.

  • Deut 20:13-14
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    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.

  • Deut 3:6-7
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    77%

    6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

    7 But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    77%

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

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

  • 1 Sam 30:2-3
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    76%

    2 And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.

    3 And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.

  • Deut 2:34-35
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    76%

    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:

    35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

  • 2 Chr 28:8
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    8 And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria.

  • Deut 21:10
    75%

    10 When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

  • Num 31:15
    75%

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

  • Judg 6:1-5
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    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.

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

    4 And 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.

    5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

  • Num 25:17
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    17 Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

  • Num 31:53
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    53 (For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)

  • Num 31:32
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    32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    73%

    21 And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

  • Ps 83:9
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    9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

  • Judg 21:10-11
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    73%

    10 So 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.

    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.

  • Josh 8:27
    73%

    27 But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.

  • Num 31:26-27
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    73%

    26 Get 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:

    27 And 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:

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    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.

  • Judg 7:23
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    23 And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.

  • 1 Sam 30:20
    72%

    20 And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    72%

    15 And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

  • Neh 9:24
    72%

    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6 Then 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 31:42
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 17:53
    71%

    53 Then the children of Israel came back from going after the Philistines, and took their goods from the tents.