2 Chronicles 14:13-15

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ¹  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ²  carried off a huge amount of plunder. 14:14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the Lord caused them to panic. ³  The men of Judah ⁴  looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods. ⁵  14:15 They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. ⁶  They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem. ⁷ 

Numbers 31:28-29

31:28 “You must exact ⁸  a tribute for the Lord from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep. 31:29 You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.

Numbers 31:50

31:50 So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves ⁹  before the Lord.” ¹⁰ 

Numbers 31:1

The Midianite War

31:1 ¹¹ The Lord spoke to Moses:

Numbers 15:15

15:15 One statute must apply ¹²  to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent ¹³  statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike ¹⁴  before the Lord.

Numbers 15:21

15:21 You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.

Numbers 15:1

Sacrificial Rulings

15:1 ¹⁵ The Lord spoke to Moses:

Numbers 26:26-27

Zebulun

26:26 The Zebulunites by their families: from Sered, the family of the Sardites; from Elon, the family of the Elonites; from Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. 26:27 These were the families of the Zebulunites, according to those numbered of them, 60,500. ¹⁶ 

[14:13]  ¹ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

[14:13]  ² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:14]  ³ tn Heb “for the terror of the Lord was upon them.”

[14:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “for great plunder was in them.”

[14:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “and also they struck down the tents of the livestock.”

[14:15]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[31:28]  ⁸ tn The verb is the Hiphil, “you shall cause to be taken up.” The perfect with vav (ו) continues the sequence of the instructions. This raised offering was to be a tax of one-fifth of one percent for the Lord.

[31:50]  ⁹ tn Heb “our souls.”

[31:50]  ¹⁰ sn The expression here may include the idea of finding protection from divine wrath, which is so common to Leviticus, but it may also be a thank offering for the fact that their lives had been spared.

[31:1]  ¹¹ sn This lengthy chapter records the mobilization of the troops (vv. 1-5), the war itself (vv. 6-13), the death of the captive women (vv. 14-18), the purification of the nations (vv. 19-24), and the distribution of the spoils (vv. 25-54). For more detail, see G. W. Coats, “Moses in Midian,” JBL 92 (1973): 3-10; and W. J. Dumbrell, “Midian – a Land or a League?” VT 25 (1975): 323-37.

[15:15]  ¹² tn The word “apply” is supplied in the translation.

[15:15]  ¹³ tn Or “a statute forever.”

[15:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “as you, as [so] the alien.”

[15:1]  ¹⁵ sn The wilderness wandering officially having begun, these rules were then given for the people to be used when they finally entered the land. That they would be provided here would be of some encouragement to the nation after their great failure. God still spoke of a land that was to be their land, even though they had sinned greatly. This chapter collects a number of religious rules. The first 16 verses deal with rulings for sacrifices. Then, vv. 17-36 concerns sins of omission. Finally, rules concerning tassels are covered (vv. 37-41). For additional reading, see G. B. Gray, Sacrifice in the Old Testament (Oxford: Clarendon, 1925); B. A. Levine, In the Presence of the Lord (SJLA); D. J. McCarthy, “The Symbolism of Blood and Sacrifice,” JBL 88 (1969): 166-76; “Further Notes on the Symbolism of Blood and Sacrifice,” JBL 92 (1973): 205-10; J. Milgrom, “Sin Offering or Purification Offering,” VT 21 (1971): 237-39; N. H. Snaith, “Sacrifices in the Old Testament,” VT 7 (1957): 308-17; R. J. Thompson, Penitence and Sacrifice in Early Israel; R. de Vaux, Studies in Old Testament Sacrifice.

[26:27]  ¹⁶ sn The Zebulunites showed a slight increase from 57,400 to 60,500.