Numbers 31:15

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Moses said to them,“Have you allowed all the women to live?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
  • Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us! 9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the LORD’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women– wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.
  • Deut 20:13 : 13 The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive. 17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you, 18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.
  • Josh 6:21 : 21 They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.
  • Josh 8:25 : 25 Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.
  • Josh 10:40 : 40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.
  • Josh 11:14 : 14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

    18But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.

  • Num 31:14
    79%

    14The Death of the Midianite Women But Moses was furious with the officers of the army, the commanders over thousands and commanders over hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

  • Num 25:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader over the people of a clan of Midian.

    16Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    17“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1The Midianite War The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites– after that you will be gathered to your people.”

    3So Moses spoke to the people:“Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

  • Num 31:7
    76%

    7They fought against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

  • Num 25:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5So Moses said to the judges of Israel,“Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”

    6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

  • Num 31:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    26“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

    17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

    18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

  • Num 25:10
    73%

    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 4:19
    73%

    19The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

  • Num 27:15
    73%

    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Num 31:11
    73%

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Num 5:11
    72%

    11The Jealousy Ordeal The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:3
    72%

    3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

  • Judg 21:11
    72%

    11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.

  • Num 31:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

    32The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,

  • Num 15:17
    71%

    17Rules for First Fruits The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 32:20
    71%

    20Then Moses replied,“If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

  • Num 31:49
    71%

    49and said to him,“Your servants have taken a count of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, and not one is missing.

  • Num 15:1
    71%

    1Sacrificial Rulings The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 31:42
    71%

    42From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

  • Num 31:47
    71%

    47From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16The leaders of the assembly said,“How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

  • Lev 24:13
    70%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 5:21
    70%

    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

  • Deut 31:25
    70%

    25he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant,

  • Exod 1:22
    70%

    22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

  • Num 5:5
    70%

    5Restitution for Sin Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 3:44
    70%

    44Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 15:37
    70%

    37Rules for Tassels The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 26:3
    70%

    3So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the rift valley plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,

  • Num 29:40
    70%

    40(30:1) So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the LORD had commanded him.

  • Exod 32:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said,“Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” All the Levites gathered around him,

    27and he said to them,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said‘Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

  • Num 27:6
    70%

    6The LORD said to Moses:

  • Num 31:35
    70%

    35and 32,000 young womenwho had not experienced a man’s bed.

  • Num 14:15
    70%

    15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,