Numbers 31:6 (KJV)

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And Moses sent them to the war a thousand of every tribe them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the war with the holy instruments and the trumpets to blow in his hand

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Cross-references

Phinehas. Nu 25:7-13

the holy instruments. Nu 14:44 Nu 33:20-22 Ex 25:9 Jos 6:4-6 Jos 6:13-15 1Sa 4:4 1Sa 4:5 1Sa 4:17 1Sa 14:18 1Sa 23:9 2Sa 11:11

to blow. Nu 10:8 Nu 10:9 2Ch 13:12-15

a thousand.Twelve thousand in all--a small number in proportion to all Israel, or to the forces which they had to encounter. As they were under the conduct of captains of thousands and hundreds, they probably had no general; for Phinehas seems to have accompanied them simply to take charge of "the holy instruments;" probably the ark and silver trumpets.

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