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Numbers 31:8 Explained in Context
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Verse 8. 8And 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: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 31:8 within “Israel Kills Midianite Males and Takes Women, Children, and Spoil,” advances the war account while keeping its affected people visible; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: 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: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
Read It With
- Numbers 31:7–12
Read Numbers 31:8 with 31:7–12. It within “Israel Kills Midianite Males and Takes Women, Children, and Spoil,” advances the war account while keeping its affected people visible; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: 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: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The army kills every male in the narrated campaign, including five kings and Balaam, burns cities and camps, and takes women, children, animals, goods, and spoil back to Moses, Eleazar, and the congregation.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 31:7–12 — Israel Kills Midianite Males and Takes Women, Children, and SpoilSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 31:7–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 31:7–12
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