Numbers 14:15

14:15 If you kill ¹  this entire people at once, ²  then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

Numbers 14:42

14:42 Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be ³  defeated before your enemies.

Numbers 23:15

23:15 And Balaam ⁴  said to Balak, “Station yourself here ⁵  by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.

Numbers 31:2

31:2 “Exact vengeance ⁶  for the Israelites on the Midianites ⁷  – after that you will be gathered to your people.” ⁸ 

Numbers 32:4

32:4 the land that the Lord subdued ⁹  before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

Numbers 32:6

Moses’ Response

32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you ¹⁰  remain here?

Numbers 32:8

32:8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

Numbers 32:25

32:25 So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

Numbers 34:6-7

The Western Border of the Land

34:6 “‘And for a western border ¹¹  you will have the Great Sea. ¹²  This will be your western border.

The Northern Border of the Land

34:7 “‘And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

Numbers 34:9

34:9 The border will continue to Ziphron, and its direction will be to Hazar Enan. This will be your northern border.

Numbers 35:29

35:29 So these things must be a statutory ordinance ¹³  for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

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¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of מוּת (mut), וְהֵמַתָּה (vÿhemattah). The vav (ו) consecutive makes this also a future time sequence verb, but again in a conditional clause.

² tn Heb “as one man.”

³ tn This verb could also be subordinated to the preceding: “that you be not smitten.”

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn The verse uses כֹּה (koh) twice: “Station yourself here…I will meet [the Lord] there.”

⁶ tn The imperative is followed by its cognate accusative to stress this vengeance. The Midianites had attempted to destroy Israel with their corrupt pagan practices, and now will be judged. The accounts indicate that the effort by Midian was calculated and evil.

⁷ sn The war was commanded by the Lord and was to be divine vengeance on the Midianites. So it was holy war. No Israelites then could take spoils in this – it was not a time for plunder and aggrandizement. It was part of the judgment of God upon those who would destroy or pervert his plan and his people.

⁸ sn This would be the last major enterprise that Moses would have to undertake. He would soon die and “be gathered to his people” as Aaron was.

⁹ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נָכָה (nakhah), a term that can mean “smite, strike, attack, destroy.”

¹⁰ tn The vav (ו) is a vav disjunctive prefixed to the pronoun; it fits best here as a circumstantial clause, “while you stay here.”

¹¹ tn The word for west is simply “sea,” because the sea is west of Israel.

¹² sn That is, the Mediterranean Sea (also in the following verse).

¹³ tn Heb “a statute of judgment” (so KJV).