Numbers 31:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ So a thousand men were chosen from each tribe, a total of twelve thousand men ready for battle. ⁶ Moses sent them to war under the command of Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took charge of the sacred objects and the trumpets for giving signals. ⁷ They attacked Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed all the men,