SEV Biblia, Chapter 31:14
Y se enojó Moisés contra los capitanes del ejército, contra los tribunos y centuriones que volvían de la guerra;
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host , etc.] The general officers who had the command of the army, for there does not appear to be anyone that was one general over the whole, otherwise the displeasure would have fallen upon him: [with] the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle ; rather “with” should be left out, not being in the text; and these captains only explain who the officers were, and these were one hundred and thirty two, as Aben Ezra observes; twelve who were captains over thousands, and were more properly the general officers; and one hundred and twenty over so many hundreds, into which the whole were subdivided.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-18 - The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilt nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The femal children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, woul not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the hatefulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The wome and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for slaves, custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents ar punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ.
Original Hebrew
ויקצף 7107 משׁה 4872 על 5921 פקודי 6485 החיל 2428 שׂרי 8269 האלפים 505 ושׂרי 8269 המאות 3967 הבאים 935 מצבא 6635 המלחמה׃ 4421
