Numbers 31:7
They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.
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- Judg 21:11 : 11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.
- 1 Kgs 11:15-16 : 15 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
- 1 Sam 27:9 : 9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.
- Deut 20:13-14 : 13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: 14 but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
- Judg 6:1-2 : 1 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
- Judg 6:33 : 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
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- Num 31:1-66 verses82%
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people.
3 Moses 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.
4 Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you 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.
- Num 31:8-114 verses82%
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 cattle, 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.
11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.
- Num 25:16-172 verses78%
16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and strike them;
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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.
- Num 31:14-152 verses76%
14 Moses 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.
15 Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
- Judg 21:10-112 verses75%
10 The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.
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13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
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5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.
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29 They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
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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."
- Deut 2:15-162 verses72%
15 Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
16 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
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31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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9 Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
- Judg 7:22-232 verses72%
22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
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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12 All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.
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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."
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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,
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22 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
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16 Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.
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21 and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
- Deut 31:4-52 verses71%
4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
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25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
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16 Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
- Judg 6:3-42 verses71%
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;
4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
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20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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7 It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,
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27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
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24 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.
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1 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
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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.