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Vengeance on Midian

Numbers 31:10

In 11 translations

BSB
Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
KJV
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
WEB
All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.
ASV
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
LSV
and they have burned all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, with fire.
YLT
and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.
DBY
and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.
DRC
And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.
GNV
And they burnt all their cities, wherein they dwelt, and all their villages with fire.
JPS
And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
LXXE
And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation, and they burnt their villages with fire.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאֵ֤ת כָּל־עָרֵיהֶם֙ בְּמ֣וֹשְׁבֹתָ֔ם וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־טִֽירֹתָ֑ם שָׂרְפ֖וּ בָּאֵֽשׁ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ πάσας τὰς πόλεις αὐτῶν τὰς ἐν ταῖς κατοικίαις αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰς ἐπαύλεις αὐτῶν ἐνέπρησαν ἐν πυρί.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Kings 9:16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
  • 1 Samuel 30:1On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
  • Genesis 25:16These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes.
  • Revelation 18:8Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
  • Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
  • Joshua 6:24Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

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