Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 31:7

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 31:7 - 31:7

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 31:7 - 31:7

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

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

they slew all the males - This was in accordance with a divine order in all such cases (Deu 20:13). But the destruction appears to have been only partial - limited to those who were in the neighborhood of the Hebrew camp and who had been accomplices in the villainous plot of Baal-peor (Num 25:1-3), while a large portion of the Midianites were absent on their pastoral wanderings or had saved themselves by flight. (Compare Jdg 6:1).