Numbers 31:48 (BSB)

Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and of hundreds—approached Moses

From Numbers 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 31:48

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 31:48: 48. And the officers which were over the thousands. We have here an example of signal gratitude, that the leaders of the army, when they saw that none of their men were lost, consecrated their spoils of gold and silver to the Lord.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 31:48: For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself. And which he kept for himself, and did not deliver in with the prey or booty, which was brought to Moses and Eleazar, the sum of which was taken by them; and this seems to confirm what has been hinted, that, as each soldier had taken spoil for himself, so everyone contributed his...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 31:48: officers . . . said . . . there lacketh not one man of us--A victory so signal, and the glory of which was untarnished by the loss of a single Israelitish soldier, was an astonishing miracle. So clearly betokening the direct interposition of Heaven, it might well awaken the liveliest feelings of grateful acknowledgment to God (Psa 44:2-3).
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 31:48-54: Num 31:48-54 Sacred Oblations of the Officers. - When the officers reviewed the men of war who were “in their hand,” i.e., who had fought the battle under their command, and found not a single man missing, they felt constrained to give a practical expression to their gratitude for this miraculous preservation of the whole of the men, by presenting a sacrificial gift to Jehovah...