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 Moses;

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 Israel's half, Moses 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 Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

49 and they said to Moses, 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 Yahweh'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 Yahweh.