“You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
Numbers 31:4 (WEB)
Context Reading
2“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” 3Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian. 4You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.” 5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.