Numbers 31:48

48 The officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moshe;

Numbers 31:48 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:48

And the officers which were over thousands of the host
Over the twelve thousand, of which the host or army consisted: namely, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses; of their own accord, without being sent, or required to do what they did.

Numbers 31:48 In-Context

46 and sixteen thousand persons),

47 even of the children of Yisra'el's half, Moshe took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moshe.

48 The officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moshe;

49 and they said to Moshe, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.

50 We have brought the LORD's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.