What happensPermalink
At God’s command, Israel goes to war against Midian in revenge for their corrupting Israel at Peor. They kill all the men, women, and male children, but take no losses.
Why it mattersPermalink
Typically, women would be spared in war, but since these Midianite women had seduced the men of Israel and led them to worship Baal, God ordered them killed as vengeance.
Key versePermalink
Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.