Numbers Chapter 31 verse 49 Holy Bible

ASV Numbers 31:49

and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
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BBE Numbers 31:49

And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;
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DARBY Numbers 31:49

and they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who were under our hand, and there is not one man of us lacking.
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KJV Numbers 31:49

And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
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WBT Numbers 31:49

And they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
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WEB Numbers 31:49

and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
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YLT Numbers 31:49

and they say unto Moses, `Thy servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who `are' with us, and not a man of us hath been missed;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 49. - There lacketh not one man of us. The officers naturally regarded this as a very wonderful circumstance; and so indeed it was, whether Midian made any resistance or not. It was, however, in strict keeping with the promises of that temporal dispensation. It would have been no satisfaction to the Israelite who fell upon the threshold of the promised land to know that victory remained with his comrades. His was not the courage of modern soldiers, who fling away their lives in blind confidence that some advantage will accrue thereby to the army at large; rather, he fought under the conviction that to each, as well as to all, life and victory were pledged upon condition of obedience and courage. In this case no one was found unfaithful, and therefore no one was allowed to fall.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(49) There lacketh not one man of us.--It is obvious from the smallness of the number of the Israelitish warriors, as well as from the reference to those chiefs only of the Midianites who were the vassals of Sihon, and from the strength of the Midianitish nation in the time of Gideon (Judges 6-8), that the attack was made only upon that particular portion of the nation which had been concerned in the seduction of the Israelites to the worship of Baal Peor. The Midianites were probably attacked in an unprepared and defenceless state. After due allowance, however, has been made for all these circumstances, the fact that not a single Israelitish warrior perished can be satisfactorily explained only on the supposition that God vouchsafed to grant to His people miraculous aid and protection.