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Numbers 31:49

Numbers 31:49
And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

There is no mention of any resistance on the part of the Midianites. The Israelites saw in this and in the preservation of all those engaged, proofs that the Lord had been with them in the work, and…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The officers report the safe return of every single Israelite soldier. No element of success must be absent from the ideal picture of a sacred victory.

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