Numbers 31:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Lev 26:25 : 25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
  • Num 25:11 : 11 "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
  • Num 25:13 : 13 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'"
  • Judg 5:2 : 2 "Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!
  • Judg 5:23 : 23 'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of Yahweh. 'Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.'
  • 2 Kgs 9:7 : 7 You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.
  • 2 Kgs 10:30 : 30 Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
  • Jer 46:10 : 10 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
  • Jer 50:28 : 28 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
  • Exod 17:9-9 : 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand." 10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
  • Exod 17:16 : 16 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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

  • Num 31:4-7
    4 verses
    82%

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

    5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

    6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

    7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

  • Num 32:20-21
    2 verses
    81%

    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,

  • Num 25:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

  • Num 31:9
    76%

    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.

  • Num 31:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

    15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

  • Num 31:25
    75%

    25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 32:26-28
    3 verses
    75%

    26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

    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.'"

    28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

  • Num 32:27
    74%

    27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says."

  • Num 31:27
    74%

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

  • Num 26:3
    73%

    3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  • Num 25:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    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."

  • Exod 31:1
    73%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:42
    73%

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

  • Exod 17:9
    73%

    9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."

  • Deut 1:41
    73%

    41 Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us." Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

  • Deut 3:18
    72%

    18 I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

  • Num 25:10
    72%

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 13:1
    72%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 32:29
    72%

    29 Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

  • Num 3:44
    72%

    44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:21
    72%

    21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:

  • Num 31:53
    72%

    53 ([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

  • Num 3:11
    72%

    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 1:3
    72%

    3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

  • Num 27:15
    72%

    15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • Deut 27:11
    72%

    11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,

  • Exod 4:19
    72%

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

  • Exod 30:11
    72%

    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Judg 6:16
    71%

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

  • Exod 6:10
    71%

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Judg 7:23
    71%

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

  • Num 32:6
    71%

    6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

  • Lev 27:1
    71%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 14:13
    71%

    13 Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;