Numbers 31:10

10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt and all their castels with fyre.

Numbers 31:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:10

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt
} So far as they went into the country, which, perhaps, might not be the whole land of Midian:

and all their goodly castles with fire;
which were either the palaces of their princes and nobles, or such like great personages; or they were fortified places, for the security of their cities and country: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan interpret them of their houses of worship, their temples, and their altars.

Numbers 31:10 In-Context

8 And they slewe the kynges of Madian among other that were slayne: Eui Rekem Zur Hur and Reba: fyue kynges of Madian. And they slewe Bala the sonne of Beor with the swerde.

9 And the childern of Israel toke all the wemen of Madian presoners and their childern and spoyled all their catell their substance and their goodes.

10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt and all their castels with fyre.

11 And they toke all the spoyle and all they coude catche both of men and beestes.

12 And they broughte the captynes and that which they had taken and all the spoyle vnto Moses and Eleazer the preast ad vnto the companye of the childern of Israel: euen vnto the hoste in ye feldes of Moab by Iordanenye to Iericho.