You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
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You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
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Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
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Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.'
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Numbers 31:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
- Judges 7:2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
- 1 Samuel 14:6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Of every tribe a thousand,.... So that the whole…
Of every tribe a thousand,.... So that the whole number of those that were armed were 12,000 as after given:
throughout all the tribes of Israel; this is observed, as Jarchi thinks, to comprehend the tribe of Levi, which in some cases was left out of the account:
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shall ye send to the war; to fight with Midian.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. The selection of 1,000 soldiers from each tribe…
4. The selection of 1,000 soldiers from each tribe is purely artificial. The larger ones could send a much greater number.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.