Numbers 31:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
  • Ps 137:8-9 : 8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, He will be happy who rewards you, As you have served us. 9 Happy shall he be, Who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
  • Deut 20:13 : 13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you; 18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
  • Josh 6:21 : 21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
  • Josh 8:25 : 25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
  • Josh 10:40 : 40 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
  • Josh 11:14 : 14 All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

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

    18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Num 31:14
    79%

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

  • Num 25:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15The 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.

    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17Vex the Midianites, and strike them;

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people.

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

  • Num 31:7
    76%

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

  • Num 25:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.

    6Behold, 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 31:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    26Take 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;

  • Num 31:9
    75%

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

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

    17But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

    18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?"

  • Num 25:10
    73%

    10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 4:19
    73%

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

  • Num 27:15
    73%

    15Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • Num 31:11
    73%

    11They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

  • Num 5:11
    72%

    11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 14:3
    72%

    3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?

  • Judg 21:11
    72%

    11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.

  • Num 31:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

    32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

  • Num 15:17
    71%

    17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 32:20
    71%

    20Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,

  • Num 31:49
    71%

    49and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.

  • Num 15:1
    71%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:42
    71%

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

  • Num 31:47
    71%

    47even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

  • Lev 24:13
    70%

    13Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 5:21
    70%

    21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Deut 31:25
    70%

    25that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,

  • Exod 1:22
    70%

    22Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

  • Num 5:5
    70%

    5Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 3:44
    70%

    44Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 15:37
    70%

    37Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 26:3
    70%

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

  • Num 29:40
    70%

    40Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Exod 32:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26then 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.

    27He 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."

  • Num 27:6
    70%

    6Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:35
    70%

    35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

  • Num 14:15
    70%

    15Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,