Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 31:19

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 31:19 - 31:19

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 31:19 - 31:19

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31:1 - 31:1
31:3 - 31:3
31:5 - 31:5
31:6 - 31:6
31:7 - 31:7
31:8 - 31:8
31:13 - 31:13
31:14 - 31:14
31:19 - 31:19
31:25 - 31:25
31:32 - 31:32
31:48 - 31:48

abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person ... purify both yourselves and your captives - Though the Israelites had taken the field in obedience to the command of God, they had become defiled by contact with the dead. A process of purification was to be undergone, as the law required (Lev 15:13; Num 19:9-12), and this purifying ceremony was extended to dress, houses, tents, to everything on which a dead body had lain, which had been touched by the blood-stained hands of the Israelitish warriors, or which had been the property of idolaters. This became a standing ordinance in all time coming (Lev 6:28; Lev 11:33; Lev 15:12).