Numbers 31:10

Translations

Modern

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,

Traditional

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

Literal

And also all the cities where they dwelt, and all their forts, they burned with the fire.

Latin

…tam urbes quam viculos et castella flamma consumpsit.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,

Notes

Numbers 31:10

cities … encampments: These places included both large towns and smaller camps without walls.

Numbers 31:9–13

After the battle, the Hebrews began the practice that they sometimes followed throughout the period of conquest and beyond (for example, Joshua 6; 8; 10–11). They destroyed their enemies (sometimes the total population), burned towns, and set aside spoils for their own use or as dedicated to the Lord.

Theme notes and profiles

Moses

Related verses

Genesis 25:16
These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes.
1 Samuel 30:1
On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Joshua 6:24
Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
1 Kings 9:16
Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
Revelation 18:8
Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Glossary

Deuteronomy, Book of Midian, Midianite Numbers, Book of

Topics

Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Castle: A Tower Journey of Israel Through The Desert: Return to the Plains of Moab: Midianites Destroyed and Balaam Slain Midianites with the Moabites: Punished for Seducing Israel Spoils of War War of Extermination

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