Numbers 31:30-52
one portion Num 31:42-47 flocks or, goats and give Num 31:28, Num 18:24-28; 1Cor 9:13-14 keep the Num 3:7-8, Num 3:25, Num 3:31, Num 3:36-39, Num 18:1-5, Num 18:23; 1Chr 9:27-29, 1Chr 23:32, 1Chr 26:20-27; Acts 20:28; 1Cor 4:2; Col 4:17; Heb 13:17 the booty It appears from the enumeration here, that the Israelites, in this war with the Midianites, took 32,000 female prisoners, 61,000 asses, 72,000 beeves, and 675,000 sheep and small cattle; besides the immense number of males who fell in battle, and the women and children who were slain by the divine command (Num 31:17). This booty was divided into equal parts, by which partition a far larger share was justly given to the warriors employed on the expedition, who were only 12,000, than to those, who being equally willing to go, were ordered to stay in the camp. Each party was to give a certain proportion to Jehovah, as their sovereign, in grateful acknowledgment that to him they owed their success. The soldiers to give to the Lord one out of every five hundred persons, beeves, asses, and sheep (Num 31:28), and the people, who by staying at home risked nothing, and had no fatigue, were to give one out of fifty of each of the above to the Levites, who were far more numerous than the priests (Num 31:30). It does not appear that a single ox, sheep, or ass, was required by Moses as his portion; or that there was any given to him by the people; and though he had a family as well as others, yet no provision was made for them above the common lot of Levites! Eleazar Num 31:29-31, Num 18:8, Num 18:19; Matt 10:10; 1Cor 9:10-14; Gal 6:6; 1Tim 5:17; Heb 7:4-6, Heb 7:9-12 the Levites Num 18:21-24; Deut 12:17-19; Luke 10:1-8; 1Thess 5:12-13 kept the charge Num 31:30; Ps 134:1; Isa 56:10-11 charge Heb. hand lacketh 1Sam 30:18-19; Ps 72:14; John 18:9 therefore brought The officers of the army having mustered their men, found they had not lost a man in the contest with Midian! Penetrated with gratitude for this most remarkable interposition of Providence in their favour, they now offer to Jehovah the golden jewels which they had found among the spoil, to the amount of 16,750 shekels, equal to £37,869, 16s. 5d. of our money. an oblation Ps 107:15, Ps 107:21-22, Ps 116:12, Ps 116:17 gotten Heb. found an atonement Exod 30:12, Exod 30:15-16; Lev 17:11 Num 7:2-6 offering Heb. heave-offering, Num 31:52
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