Numbers 31:7-18

Vengeance on Midian

⁷ They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and _r killed every male. ⁸ They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, _s Evi, Rekem, _t Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed _u Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. ⁹ And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods. ¹⁰ All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their _v encampments, they burned with fire, ¹¹ _w and took all the spoil and all the plunder, both of man and of beast. ¹² Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on _x the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

¹³ Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp. ¹⁴ And Moses was angry with _y the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. ¹⁵ Moses said to them, "Have you _z let all the women live? ¹⁶ Behold, _a these, _b on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of _c Peor, and so _d the plague came among the congregation of the Lord. ¹⁷ Now therefore, _e kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. ¹⁸ But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him _f keep alive for yourselves.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 20:13
   And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword.
   Judges 21:11
   This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.
   1 Samuel 27:9
   And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.
   1 Kings 11:15 - 16
   For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom
   
2. Cross References
   Joshua 13:21
   That is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
   
3. Cross References
   Numbers 25:15
   And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father's house in Midian.
   
4. Cross References
   Joshua 13:22
   Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain.
   
5. Cross References
   Genesis 25:16
   These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.
   
6. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 20:14
   But the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.
   Joshua 8:2
   And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.
   
7. Cross References
   Numbers 22:1
   Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
   
8. Cross References
   Numbers 31:48
   Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses
   
9. Cross References
   1 Samuel 15:3
   Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'
   
10. Cross References
    Numbers 25:2
    These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
    
11. Cross References
    Numbers 24:14
    And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days.
    2 Peter 2:15
    Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing.
    Revelation 2:14
    But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.
    
12. Cross References
    Numbers 23:28
    So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.
    
13. Cross References
    Numbers 25:9
    Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
    
14. Cross References
    Judges 21:11 - 12
    This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.
    
15. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 21:10 - 14
    When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive.