Numbers 31:14-18
wroth.12:3; Ex 32:19,22; Le 10:16; 1Sa 15:13,14; 1Ki 20:42; 2Ki 13:19Eph 4:26battle. Heb. host of war. De 2:34; 20:13,16-18; Jos 6:21; 8:25; 10:40; 11:14; 1Sa 15:3Ps 137:8,9; Jer 48:10; Eze 9:6 these caused.24:14; 25:1-3; Pr 23:27; Ec 7:26; 2Pe 2:15; Re 2:14in the matter.25:18; De 4:3; Jos 22:17and there.25:9 kill every male.The sword of war should spare women and children, as incapable of resisting; but the sword of justice knows no distinction, except that of guilty or not guilty, or more or less guilty. This was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the greatest criminals; and it may safely be said, that their lives were forfeited by their personal transgressions. With respect to the execution of the male infants, who cannot be supposed to have been guilty, God, the author and supporter of life, who has a right to dispose of it when and how he thinks proper, commanded it; and "shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Jud 21:11,12him. Heb. a male. keep alive for yourselves.It has been groundlessly asserted, that Moses here authorised the Israelites to make concubines of the whole number of female children; and an insidious objection against his writings has been grounded upon this monstrous supposition. But the whole tenor of the law, and especially a statute recorded in De 21:10-14, proves most decisively to the contrary. They were merely permitted to possess them as female slaves, educating them in their families, and employing them as domestics; for the laws concerning fornication, concubinage, and marriage, were in full force, and prohibited an Israelite even from marrying a captive, without delays and previous formalities; and if he afterwards divorced her, he was to set here at liberty, "because he had humbled her." Le 25:44; De 20:14; 21:10-14; 2Ch 28:8-10; Isa 14:21 Samuel 15:3
Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right. utterly destroy.Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21slay.Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22ox and sheep.Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-221 Samuel 15:11-24
repenteth me.35; Ge 6:6; 2Sa 24:16; Ps 110:4; Jer 18:7-10; Am 7:3; Jon 3:10; 4:2turned.Jos 22:16; 1Ki 9:6; Ps 36:3; 78:41,57; 125:5; Zep 1:6; Mt 24:13Heb 10:38hath not performed.3,9; 13:13it grieved.35; 16:1; Ps 119:136; Jer 9:1,18; 13:17; Lu 19:41-44; Ro 9:1-3he cried.12:23; Ps 109:4; Mt 5:44; Lu 6:12 Carmel.25:2; Jos 15:55; 1Ki 18:42he set him.7:12; Jos 4:8,9; 2Sa 18:18a place. Yad.Literally as the LXX. render [cheira,] a hand; probably because the trophy or monument of victory was in the shape of a large hand, the emblem of power, erected on a pillar. These memorial pillars were anciently much in use; and the figure of a hand, by its emblematical meaning, was well adapted to preserve the remembrance of a victory. Niebuhr, speaking of the Mesjed Ali, or Mosque of Ali, says that, "at the top of the dome, where one generally sees on the Turkish mosques a crescent, or only a pole, there is here a hand stretched out, to represent that of Ali." Another writer informs us, that at the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings in Grenada, "on the key-stone of the outward arch [of the present principal entrance] is sculptured the figure of an arm, the symbol of strength and dominion." Blessed.13:10; Ge 14:19; Jud 17:2; Ru 3:10I have performed.9,11; Ge 3:12; Pr 27:2; 28:13; 30:13; 31:31; Lu 17:10; 18:11 What meaneth.Ps 36:2; 50:16-21; Jer 2:18,19,22,23,34-37; Mal 3:13-15; Lu 19:22Ro 3:19; 1Co 4:5 for.9,21; Ge 3:12,13; Ex 32:22,23; Job 31:33; Pr 28:13to.Mt 2:8; Lu 10:29 Stay.9:27; 12:7; 1Ki 22:16 When thou.9:21; 10:22; Jud 6:15; Ho 13:1; Mt 18:4the Lord.1-3; 10:1 the sinners.Ge 13:13; 15:16; Nu 16:38; Job 31:3; Pr 10:29; 13:21they be consumed. Heb. they consume them. fly upon.Pr 15:27; Jer 7:11; Hab 2:9-12; 2Ti 4:10didst evil.2Ch 33:2,6; 36:12 Yea.13; Job 33:9; 34:5; 35:2; 40:8; Mt 19:20; Lu 10:29; 18:11; Ro 10:3have brought.3,8 the people.15; Ge 3:13; Ex 32:22,23 Hath the Lord.Ps 50:8,9; 51:16,17; Pr 21:3; Isa 1:11-17; Jer 7:22,23; Ho 6:6Am 5:21-24; Mic 6:6-8; Mt 9:13; 12:7; 23:23; Heb 10:4-10obey.Ex 19:5; Ec 5:1; Jer 7:23; 11:4,7; 26:13; Ho 6:6; Mt 5:24; Mr 12:33 rebellion.12:14,15; Nu 14:9; De 9:7,24; Jos 22:16-19; Job 34:37; Ps 107:11Jer 28:16; 29:32; Eze 2:5-8witchcraft. Heb. divination.Ex 22:18; Le 20:6,27; De 18:10,11; Isa 8:19; 19:3; Re 22:15stubbornness.2Co 6:16; Ga 5:20; Re 21:8thou hast rejected.2:30; 13:14; 16:1; 2Ki 17:15-20; 1Ch 28:9 I have sinned.30; Ex 9:27; 10:16; Nu 22:34; 2Sa 12:13; Mt 27:4I feared.9,15; Ex 23:2; Job 31:34; Pr 29:25; Isa 51:12,13; Lu 23:20-25Ga 1:10; Re 21:8obeyed.2:29; Ge 3:12,17; Jer 38:52 Samuel 16:11
Behold.12:11,12came forth.7:2; Ge 15:4seeketh.17:1-4; 2Ki 19:37; 2Ch 32:21; Mt 10:21the Lord.Isa 10:5-7; Eze 14:9; 20:252 Kings 18:25
Am I now.19:6,22-37; 1Ki 13:18; 2Ch 35:21; Isa 10:5,6; Am 3:6; Joh 19:10,11Jeremiah 34:22
I will command.2Sa 16:11; 2Ki 24:2,3; 2Ch 36:17; Isa 10:5-7; 13:3; 37:26; 45:1-3Am 3:6; Mt 22:7cause.They did return, and reinvested the city; and, after an obstinate defence, took it, plundered it, and burnt it to the ground, taking Zedekiah, his princes, and people, captive. 37:8-10shall fight.21:4-10; 32:29; 38:23; 39:1,2,8; 52:7,13and I will.9:11; 33:10; 44:2-6,22; Isa 6:11; 24:12; 64:10; La 1:1; Eze 33:27,28Mic 7:13; Zec 1:12; 7:14Jeremiah 48:10
Cursed.50:25; Nu 31:14-18; Jud 5:23; 1Sa 15:3,9,13-35; 1Ki 20:42deceitfully. or, negligently.
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