Numbers 31:4

4 Send to war a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."

Numbers 31:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:4

Of every tribe a thousand
So that the whole number of those that were armed were 12,000 as after given:

throughout all the tribes of Israel;
this is observed, as Jarchi thinks, to comprehend the tribe of Levi, which in some cases was left out of the account:

shall ye send to the war;
to fight with Midian.

Numbers 31:4 In-Context

2 "Pay back the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites; after that you will die."

3 So Moses said to the people, "Get some men ready for war. The Lord will use them to pay back the Midianites.

4 Send to war a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."

5 So twelve thousand men got ready for war, a thousand men from each tribe.

6 Moses sent those men to war; Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest was with them. He took with him the holy things and the trumpets for giving the alarm.