Numbers 31:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² “Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your [departed] people.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Common English Bible

² Take just reparations for the Israelites from the Midianites. Afterward you will join your ancestors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "First, avenge the sons of Israel from the Midianites, and then you shall be gathered to your people."

Numbers 31:2 Cross References

Numbers 27:13

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was,

Revelation 6:10

they cried out with a loud voice, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”

Judges 2:10

Moreover, that whole generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

Revelation 19:2

for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her prostitution, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Hebrews 10:30

For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

1 Thessalonians 4:6

that no one wrong or exploit a brother or sister in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we have already told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

Romans 13:4

for it is God’s agent for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the agent of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.

Romans 12:19

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Acts 13:36

“For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption,

Luke 21:22

for these are days of vengeance, as a fulfillment of all that is written.

Nahum 1:2

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and prolongs it against his enemies.

Isaiah 1:24

Therefore says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Surely I will pour out my wrath on my enemies and avenge myself on my foes!

Judges 16:24

When the people saw him, they praised their god, for they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us.”

Deuteronomy 32:35

for the day of vengeance and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip? Because the day of their calamity is at hand; their doom comes swiftly.

Numbers 31:3

So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm some of your number for the war, so that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

Numbers 25:6

Just then one of the Israelites came and brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 20:26

strip Aaron of his vestments, and put them on his son Eleazar. But Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there.”

Numbers 20:24

“Let Aaron be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter the land that I have given to the Israelites, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

Exodus 2:16

The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Genesis 25:17

(This is the length of the life of Ishmael, one hundred thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people.)

Genesis 25:8

Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, old and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 15:15

As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Numbers 25:1

While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

Numbers 31:1

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Deuteronomy 4:22

For I am going to die in this land without crossing over the Jordan, but you are going to cross over to take possession of that good land.