Num 31:2-3, Judg 5:23, 1Sa 15:2-3, 18-23, Psa 137:8-9, Zec 9:13-16 | ESV | STEP | Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites . Afterward you shall be gathered to your people .

Numbers 31:2-3

2 ^a“Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall ^bbe gathered to your people.” 3 So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

Judges 5:23

23 “Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,
curse its inhabitants thoroughly,
^cbecause they did not come to the help of the Lord,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

1 Samuel 15:2-3

2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel ^din opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek and ^edevote to destruction ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20, 21} all that they have. Do not spare them, ^gbut kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

1 Samuel 15:18-23

18 And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? ^hWhy did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, ⁱ“I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21 ^jBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 22 And Samuel said,

^k“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, ^lto obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and ^midolatry.
Because ⁿyou have rejected the word of the Lord,
^ohe has also rejected you from being king.”

Psalms 137:8-9

8 O daughter of Babylon, ^pdoomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who ^qrepays you
with what you have done to us!
9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and ^rdashes them against the rock!

Zechariah 9:13-16

13 For ^sI have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, ^tO Greece,
and wield you like a warrior’s sword.

The Lord Will Save His People

14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
and ^uhis arrow will go forth like lightning;
^vthe Lord God will sound the trumpet
and will march forth in ^wthe whirlwinds ^xof the south.
15 The Lord of hosts ^ywill protect them,
and ^zthey shall devour, ^aaand tread down the sling stones,
and ^abthey shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
and be full like a bowl,
drenched ^aclike the corners of the altar.
16 On that day the Lord their God will save them,
as ^adthe flock of his people;
for ^aelike the jewels of a crown
they shall shine on his land.