Numbers 31:3
31:3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of
     yourselves unto the war, and let them go {a} against the
     Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.

     (a) As he had commanded in Numbers 25:17, declaring also
         that the injury done against his people is done against
         him.

Numbers 31:6
31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every]
     tribe, them and {b} Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
     to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to
     blow in his hand.

     (b) For his great zeal that he bare for the Lord,
         Numbers 25:13.

Numbers 31:8
31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them
     that were slain; [namely], Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
     Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: {c} Balaam also the
     son of Beor they slew with the sword.

     (c) The false prophet who gave counsel how to cause the
         Israelites to offend their God.

Numbers 31:12
31:12 And they brought the {d} captives, and the prey, and the
      spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the
      congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at
      the plains of Moab, which [are] by Jordan [near] Jericho.

      (d) As the women and little children.

Numbers 31:15
31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the {e} women
      alive?

      (e) As though he said, you should have spared none.

Numbers 31:16
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
      counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD {f}
      in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the
      congregation of the LORD.

      (f) For worshipping of Peor.

Numbers 31:17
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the {g} little ones,
      and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with
      him.

      (g) That is, all the boy children.

Numbers 31:23
31:23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go
      through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it
      shall be {h} purified with the water of separation: and
      all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the
      {i} water.

      (h) The third day and before it is molten.
      (i) It shall be washed.

Numbers 31:28
31:28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the {k} men of war
      which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both]
      of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and
      of the sheep:

      (k) Of the prey that falls to the soldiers.

Numbers 31:30
31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take {l}
      one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of
      the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and
      give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the
      tabernacle of the LORD.

      (l) The Israelites who had not been at war, of every
          fiftieth paid one to the Lord: and the soldiers one of
          every five hundred.

Numbers 31:37
31:37 And the {m} LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred
      and threescore and fifteen.

      (m) This is the portion that the soldiers gave to the
          Lord.

Numbers 31:40
31:40 And {n} the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the
      LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons.

      (n) Meaning, of the maids, or virgins who had not slept
          with a man.

Numbers 31:42
31:42 And of the children of Israel's {o} half, which Moses
      divided from the men that warred,

      (o) Of that part which was given to them in dividing the
          spoil.

Numbers 31:47
31:47 Even of the {p} children of Israel's half, Moses took one
      portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave
      them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the
      tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

      (p) Which had not been at war.

Numbers 31:50
31:50 {q} We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD,
      what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and
      bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an
      atonement for our souls before the LORD.

      (q) The captains by the free offering acknowledge the
          great benefit of God in preserving his people.

Numbers 31:53
31:53 ([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for {r}
      himself.)

      (r) And gave no portion to their captains.

Numbers 31:54
31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the
      captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into
      the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a {s} memorial
      for the children of Israel before the LORD.

      (s) that the Lord might remember the children of Israel.