Numbers 31:49

49 and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

Numbers 31:49 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:49

And they said unto Moses
Gave the following relation to him, which is a very surprising one: thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our
charge;
since the war with Midian was over, they had mustered the several companies under their command, such as had thousands, and those that had hundreds: and there lacketh not one man of us;
which is a most amazing and unheard of thing, that in waging war with a whole nation, slaying all their males, sacking and burning so many cities, plundering the inhabitants of their substance, taking and carrying off such a vast number of captives, yet not one should fall by the sword of the enemy, or by any disease or accident whatever, but all to a man should return to the camp of Israel again; this is not to be paralleled in any history.

Numbers 31:49 In-Context

47 and from the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD , just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, approached Moses,

49 and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

50 "So we have brought as an offering to the LORD what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD ."

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of wrought articles.