Numbers 31:2 ““Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you…”

Numbers 31:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

World English Bible

“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

American Standard Version

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Geneva Bible 1599

Reuenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, and afterwarde shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people.

Darby Translation

Avenge the children of Israel upon the Midianites; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy peoples.

Young's Literal Translation

'Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites — afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'

Bible in Basic English

Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

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Cross references

“Avenge”

Revelation 6:10 Numbers 31:3 Deuteronomy 32:35 Judges 16:24 Judges 16:28–30 Psalm 94:1–3

Revelation 6:10 · BSB

And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

Numbers 31:3 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 32:35 · BSB

Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

Judges 16:24 · BSB

And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”

Judges 16:28–30 · BSB

Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Psalm 94:1–3 · BSB

O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.

“the Midianites”

Numbers 25:14–18 Numbers 25:6 Genesis 25:1–4 Exodus 2:16

Numbers 25:14–18 · BSB

The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.

Numbers 25:6 · BSB

Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Genesis 25:1–4 · BSB

Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,

Exodus 2:16 · BSB

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

“gathered”

Numbers 27:13 Judges 2:10 Genesis 15:15 Genesis 25:8 Genesis 25:17 Acts 13:36

Numbers 27:13 · BSB

After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;

Judges 2:10 · BSB

After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.

Genesis 15:15 · BSB

You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

Genesis 25:8 · BSB

And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25:17 · BSB

Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

Acts 13:36 · BSB

For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

Also

Numbers 20:24 Numbers 20:26

Numbers 20:24 · BSB

“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 20:26 · BSB

Remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on his son Eleazar. Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1And the LORD said to Moses,

3So 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.

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