Numbers 31:10 · Young's Literal Translation
Numbers 31:10 in the Original Hebrew
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Numbers 31:10 in Other Translations
| KJV | And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. |
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| WEB | All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. |
| ASV | And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. |
| YLT | and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire. |
| WBT | And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. |
| DBY | and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire. |
Commentary on Numbers 31:10
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Numbers 31:8–12
the kings of Midian--so called, because each was possessed of absolute power within his own city or district; called also dukes or princes of Sihon (Jos 13:21), having been probably subject to that Amorite ruler, as it is not uncommon in the East to find a number of governors or pachas tributary to one great king.
Zur--father of Cozbi (Num 25:15).
Balaam also . . . they slew with the sword--This unprincipled man, on his dismissal from Balak, set out for his home in Mesopotamia (Num 24:25). But, either diverging from his way to tamper with the Midianites, he remained among them without proceeding farther, to incite them against Israel and to watch the effects of his wicked counsel; or, learning in his own country that the Israelites had fallen into the snare which he had laid and which he doubted not would lead to their ruin, he had, under the impulse of insatiable greed, returned to demand his reward from the Midianites. He was an object of merited vengeance. In the immense slaughter of the Midianitish people--in the capture of their women, children, and property and in the destruction of all their places of refuge--the severity of a righteous God fell heavily on that base and corrupt race. But, more than all others, Balaam deserved and got the just reward of his deeds. His conduct had been atrociously sinful, considering the knowledge he possessed, and the revelations he had received, of the will of God. For any one in his circumstances to attempt defeating the prophecies he had himself been the organ of uttering, and plotting to deprive the chosen people of the divine favor and protection, was an act of desperate wickedness, which no language can adequately characterize.
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Questions about Numbers 31:10
What does Numbers 31:10 say?
Numbers 31:10 in the Young's Literal Translation reads: “and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.” Read it in the full context of Numbers 31, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Numbers 31:10 found in the Bible?
Numbers 31:10 is in the book of Numbers, chapter 31, verse 10, in the Old Testament.
What Bible translation is Numbers 31:10 shown in?
This is the Young's Literal Translation (YLT), a public-domain translation. You can compare how other translations render Numbers 31:10 in the table on this page.
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, &c. ) So far as they went into the country, which, perhaps, might not be the whole land of Midian:
and all their goodly castles with fire; which were either the palaces of their princes and nobles, or such like great personages; or they were fortified places, for the security of their cities and country: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan interpret them of their houses of worship, their temples, and their altars.