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\nNum 31:25-40<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0The LORD said to Moses,\u00a0\u201cTake the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,\u00a0and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.\u00a0And levy for the LORD a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.\u00a0Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the LORD.\u00a0And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD.\u201d\u00a0And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.\u00a0Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,\u00a072,000 cattle,\u00a061,000 donkeys,\u00a0and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.\u00a0And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,\u00a0and the LORD’s tribute of sheep was 675.\u00a0The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 72.\u00a0The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61.\u00a0The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 persons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u00a0\u201cThe booty is equally divided between the people and the soldiers; a five-hundredth part being given to the Lord, and a fiftieth part to the Levites.\u201d (Clarke)<\/p>\n
This accounting of spoil from the defeat of the Midianites shows a remarkable amount of plunder.\u00a0Israel\u2019s officers made this remarkable report to Moses and Eleazar. They took 12,000 men to battle against the Midianites, and\u00a0not a man of<\/b>\u00a0them was\u00a0missing<\/b>. \u201cThis wondrous indication of Yahweh\u2019s providence and protection would provide the armies of Israel with assurance and confidence for the coming campaigns in the land of Canaan.\u201d (Guzik)<\/p>\n
There was a lot of plunder. There was no death to any of Israel\u2019s army. God determined the distribution of the plunder. This act of the sovereignty of God and His awesome power over the assignments given to Israel is given to us in scripture as another example of God\u2019s love and provision, and His wrath and judgment. No matter what people may think, God is in control and His purposes and plans are right and just and holy. There can be no question of this. We may think some things to harsh and other things to soft, but how God directs His grace, mercy, love, anger, wrath, or judgment is His alone. It will always be just and right and holy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Num 31:25-40\u00a0\u00a0The LORD said to Moses,\u00a0\u201cTake the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,\u00a0and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.\u00a0And levy … Continue reading “48.r. Wilderness – 12.x. \u201cTake the count of the plunder””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8041,7395,6912,17490,17488,16804,17489,10773,9387,175,17487,17491,4259,13747],"class_list":["post-177777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-battle","tag-cattle","tag-congregation","tag-donkeys","tag-dvide-the-plunder","tag-eleazar","tag-oxen","tag-plunder","tag-priest","tag-sheep","tag-the-lord-said-to-moses","tag-the-lords-tribute","tag-tribute","tag-warriors"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177781,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177777\/revisions\/177781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}