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Numbers 31:4
Numbers 31:4 is verse 4 of Numbers chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”
King James Version
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
World English Bible
You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
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Numbers 31:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
3 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.
4 Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”
5 So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.
6 And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 26:8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
Judges 7:2Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
1 Samuel 14:6Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”