Numbers 31:2
Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ulciscere prius filios Israël de Madianitis, et sic colligeris ad populum tuum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐκδίκει τὴν ἐκδίκησιν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ τῶν Μαδιανειτῶν, καὶ ἔσχατον προστεθήσῃ πρὸς τὸν λαόν σου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- נְקֹ֗ם נִקְמַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מֵאֵ֖ת הַמִּדְיָנִ֑ים אַחַ֖ר תֵּאָסֵ֥ף אֶל עַמֶּֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Madianites. The five princes, (ver. 8,) had joined Sehon, in his attack upon the Hebrews, Josue xiii. 21. They had united with the Moabites against them, and had been most active in perverting the people of God. They had even the wicked Balaam still among them, who was bent upon destruction; so that God saw the measure of their crimes was full, their provocations unsufferable, and he was pleased to let Moses be witness of their just punishment. This he would effect with a very small force, ver. 5. (Haydock)
This war of religion was terminated about a month before the death of Moses.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.