Numbers 31:5
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Numbers 31:5 in other translations
| BSB | So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war. |
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| WEB | So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
| ASV | So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
| YLT | And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host; |
| DARBY | And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
| BBE | So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war. |
| Webster | So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
What does Numbers 31:5 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 31:1-6
All who, without commission from God, dare to execute private revenge, and who, from ambition, covetousness, or resentment, wage war and desolate kingdoms, must one day answer for it. But if God, instead of sending an earthquake, a pestilence, or a famine, be pleased to authorize and command any people to avenge his cause, such a commission surely is just and right. The Israelites could show such a commission…
Numbers 31:5 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 31:4
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
- Numbers 31:5
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
- Numbers 31:6
And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
Numbers 31:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Así fueron dados de los millares de Israel, mil por cada tribu, doce mil á punto de guerra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et on détacha d’entre les milliers d’Israël 1 000 hommes par tribu, 12 000 hommes équipés en guerre; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es wurden aus den Tausenden Israels tausend von jedem Stamme ausgehoben: zwölftausend zum Heere Gerüstete. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dederuntque millenos de singulis tribubus, id est, duodecim millia expeditorum ad pugnam: |