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Numbers 31
Numbers 31:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Avenge the
children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered
unto thy people.
3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm
some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites,
and avenge the Lord of Midian.
4 Of every tribe a thousand,
throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
5
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of
every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
6 And Moses sent them
to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of
Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the
trumpets to blow in his hand.
7 And they warred against the
Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that
were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five
kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
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Midian were half-brothers with Ishmael, and they
were mixed up together in their dealings.
9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives,
and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all
their flocks, and all their goods.
10 And they burnt all their
cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of
beasts.
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the
spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of
the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are
by Jordan near Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and
all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the
camp.
14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with
the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from
the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the
women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel,
through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in
the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the
Lord.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and
kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But
all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him,
keep alive for yourselves.
19 And do ye abide without the camp
seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched
any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day,
and on the seventh day.
20 And purify all your raiment, and all
that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made
of wood.
21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which
went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord
commanded Moses;
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Numbers 25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from
among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand.
22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the
iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 Every thing that may abide the
fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean:
nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all
that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
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And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be
clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
25 And the Lord
spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Take the sum of the prey that was
taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the
chief fathers of the congregation:
27 And divide the prey into
two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to
battle, and between all the congregation:
28 And levy a tribute
unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of
five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses,
and of the sheep:
29 Take it of their half, and give it unto
Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the Lord.
30 And of
the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of
the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all
manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which
keep the charge
of the tabernacle of the Lord.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the
priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32 And the booty, being
the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred
thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
33 And
threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
34 And threescore and one
thousand asses,
35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of
women that had not known man by lying with him.
36 And the half,
which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three
hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
37 And the Lord's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and
threescore and fifteen.
38 And the beeves were thirty and six
thousand; of which the Lord's tribute was threescore and twelve.
39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the
Lord's tribute was threescore and one.
40 And the persons were
sixteen thousand; of which the Lord's tribute was thirty and two
persons.
41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord's
heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from
the men that warred,
43 (Now the half that pertained unto the
congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven
thousand and five hundred sheep,
44 And thirty and six thousand
beeves,
45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
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And sixteen thousand persons;)
47 Even of the children of
Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of
beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the
tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.
48 And the
officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of
thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
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.
50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man
hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings,
and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all
wrought jewels.
52 And all the gold of the offering that they
offered up to the Lord, of the captains of thousands, and of the
captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for
himself.)
54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of
the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the
tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of
Israel before the Lord.
Exactly 2520 years from the exile of
Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
The first tribe to be conquered by the
Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly
2520 years later America became a nation on
July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt -
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