Numbers 31:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ And Moses said to the people, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And Moses said to the people, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian and execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian [for seducing Israel]. [Num. 25:16-18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Midian.

Common English Bible

³ Moses spoke to the people: “Equip some of your men for battle so that they may go against Midian and execute the LORD’s just punishment against Midian.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And immediately Moses said: "Arm the men among you for a battle, so that they may be able to fulfill the retribution of the Lord on the Midianites.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.

Numbers 31:3 Cross References

2 Kings 10:30

And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”

2 Kings 9:7

And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord.

Exodus 17:16

saying, “A hand upon the banner of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

Jeremiah 46:10

That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated, and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 50:28

“Hark! they flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Numbers 25:11

“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.

Numbers 25:13

and it shall be to him, and to his descendants after him, the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the people of Israel.’ ”

Numbers 31:4

You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”

Judges 5:2

“That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the Lord!

Judges 5:23

“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord, curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.