Numbers 31:1 (BSB)

And the LORD said to Moses,

From Numbers 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 31:1

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 31:1: 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses. Amongst the other prerogatives which God conferred upon His Church, this one is celebrated, that He armed the godly “to execute vengeance upon the heathen, — to execute upon them the judgment that is written,” (Psalm 149:7-9) and although the Spirit declares that this should happen under the kingdom of Christ, still He refers to ancient examples, one...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 31:1: And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... After the plague upon Israel for their fornication and idolatry, into which they were drawn by the daughters of Moab and Midian, and after the sum of the people was taken in the plains of Moab, and various laws given or repeated, and a little before the death of Moses: saying; as follows.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 31:1-2: Num 31:1-2 The Campaign. - After the people of Israel had been mustered as the army of Jehovah, and their future relation to the Lord had been firmly established by the order of sacrifice that was given to them immediately afterwards, the Lord commanded Moses to carry out that hostility to the Midianites which had already been commanded in Num 25:16-18.