John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"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." — Numbers 31:49 (ASV)
And they said to Moses Gave the following relation to him, which is a very surprising one: your servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge ; since the war with Midian was over, they had mustered the several companies under their command, such as had thousands, and those that had hundreds:
and there not one man of us is missing ; which is a most amazing and unheard of thing, that in waging war with a whole nation, slaying all their males, sacking and burning so many cities, plundering the inhabitants of their substance, taking and carrying off such a vast number of captives, yet not one should fall by the sword of the enemy, or by any disease or accident whatever, but all to a man should return to the camp of Israel again; this is not to be paralleled in any history.