0 What did Moses his soldiers to do to the Midianites in Numbers 31?

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, ... Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 1 Samuel 15:2

Trivia: Who thanked Abigail for preventing him from killing everyone who pisses against the wall?

What did Moses his soldiers to do to the Midianites in Numbers 31?


To kill all the males and all the non-virgin females

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Numbers 31:17
Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Numbers 31:17

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