So there were taken out of the thousands of Israel, twelve thousand prepared unto war, of every tribe a thousand.

And Moses sent them to the war, even a thousand of every tribe, and sent them with [a]Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest to the war: and the holy instruments, that is, the trumpets to blow were in his hand.

And they warred against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and slew all the males.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:6 For his great zeal that he bare to the Lord, Num. 25:13.

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