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Numbers 31:4

2 “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

3 So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.

Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”

5 So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

6 And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”
KJV
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
WEB
You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
ASV
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
DARBY
Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
BLB
A thousand from a tribe, a thousand from a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel, you⁺ shall send to the war.”
ÅB
tusen av hver stamme, av alle Israels stammer, skal dere sende ut til strid.
OTB
Dere skal sende tusen fra hver stamme av alle Israels stammer til krigen."
B1930
tusen av hver stamme, av alle Israels stammer, skal I sende ut til strid.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 14:6

    Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”

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  • Leviticus 26:8

    Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

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  • Judges 7:2

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

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