Numbers 31:2

World English Bible (2000)

"Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

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  • Num 27:13 : 13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
  • Num 31:3 : 3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."
  • Judg 2:10 : 10 Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
  • Judg 16:24 : 24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand."
  • Judg 16:28-30 : 28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." 29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left. 30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
  • Ps 94:1-3 : 1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth. 2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. 3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
  • Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;
  • Nah 1:2 : 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
  • Luke 21:22 : 22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
  • Rom 12:19 : 19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."
  • Rom 13:4 : 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
  • Heb 10:30 : 30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people."
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."
  • Rev 19:2 : 2 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."
  • Gen 15:15 : 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
  • Gen 25:1-4 : 1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 25:17 : 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
  • Num 20:24 : 24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
  • Num 20:26 : 26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there."
  • Num 25:6 : 6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • Num 25:14-18 : 14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites. 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian. 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them; 18 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."

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  • Num 31:3-4
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    3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.

    4 Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."

  • Num 31:1
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:7-10
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    7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

    8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

    9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

    10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

  • Num 25:16-17
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    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

  • Judg 6:16
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    16 Yahweh said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."

  • Num 25:4-6
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    4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel."

    5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."

    6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Judg 6:7
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    7 It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,

  • Num 27:12-13
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    12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

    13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

  • Num 31:25-27
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    25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    26 "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;

    27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

  • Num 32:20-22
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    20 Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,

    21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

    22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.

  • Num 31:15
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    15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

  • Exod 4:19
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    19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

  • Num 31:17
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    17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

  • Deut 32:43
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    43 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

  • Num 31:42
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    42 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred

  • Judg 7:9
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    9 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, "Arise, go down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.

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    23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.

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    27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

  • Judg 6:3
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    3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

  • Deut 32:50
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    50 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:

  • Ps 83:9
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    9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

  • Num 25:10
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    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Josh 1:14-15
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    14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them

    15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"

  • Deut 31:14
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    14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him." Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

  • Deut 31:5
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    5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

  • Deut 31:7
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    7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.

  • Num 26:52
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    52 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 34:16
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    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 21:10
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    10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

  • Num 32:28
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    28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.