Numbers 31:3

New American Bible - revised edition

So Moses told the people, “Arm some men among you for the campaign, to attack Midian and to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:30

The Lord said to Jehu: Because you have done well what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in my heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.

2 Kings 9:7

You shall destroy the house of Ahab your master; thus will I avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the other servants of the Lord shed by Jezebel.

Exodus 17:16

for he said, “Take up the banner of the Lord! The Lord has a war against Amalek through the ages.”

Jeremiah 46:10

Today belongs to the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, vengeance on his foes! The sword devours and is sated, drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the land of the north, on the River Euphrates.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen! the fugitives, the refugees from the land of Babylon: They announce in Zion the retribution of the Lord, our God.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy.

Numbers 25:11

Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his being as jealous among them as I am; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites in my jealousy.

Numbers 25:13

which shall be for him and for his descendants after him the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous on behalf of his God and thus made expiation for the Israelites.

Numbers 31:4

From each of the tribes of Israel you will send a thousand men to the campaign.”

Judges 5:2

When uprising broke out in Israel, when the people rallied for duty—bless the Lord!

Judges 5:23

“Curse Meroz,” says the messenger of the Lord, “curse, curse its inhabitants! For they did not come when the Lord helped, the help of the Lord against the warriors.”