Numbers 31:2

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““Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.””

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BSBPD

““Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites--afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 31:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 15:15You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
  2. Genesis 25:1Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
  3. Genesis 25:8And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
  4. Genesis 25:17Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
  5. Exodus 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
  6. Numbers 20:24“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
  7. Numbers 20:26Remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on his son Eleazar. Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there.”
  8. Numbers 25:6Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  9. Numbers 25:14The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
  10. Numbers 25:17“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.
  11. Numbers 27:13After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
  12. Numbers 31:3So 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.
  13. Deuteronomy 4:22For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.
  14. Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
  15. Judges 2:10After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
  16. Judges 16:24And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”
  17. Judges 16:28Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”
  18. Psalms 94:1O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.
  19. Isaiah 1:24Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.
  20. Nahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
  21. Luke 21:22For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
  22. Acts 13:36For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
  23. Romans 12:19Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
  24. Romans 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.

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