“So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 31 contains 54 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.