Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
Parallel translations
- WEB Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
- KJV And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
- BSB And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
- NKJV And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.
- NASB And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
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Quick answer
Moses, Eleazar, and the leaders went out to meet the returning army.
Overview
Israel's civil and priestly leadership came to receive the soldiers, signaling the importance of the event. Their presence prepared the way for the instructions on purification and inspection of the plunder. It shows the ordered oversight God established for His people in matters of war and worship.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Num 5:2“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
- 1 Sam 15:12Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”
- Num 31:12They brought the captives, and the prey, and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
- 1 Sam 30:21David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.
- Num 19:11“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
- Gen 14:17The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
- Num 31:22–24however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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