Numbers 31:2-10

2“Take vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people [in death].”

3Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, so that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian [for seducing Israel to participate in idolatry].

4A thousand [fighting men] from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.”

5So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were selected, twelve thousand armed for war.

6Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to war with them, and the sacred vessels [of the sanctuary] and the trumpets to blow the alarm in his hand.

7They made war against Midian, just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

8They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur [the father of Cozbi] and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; also Balaam the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

9The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their children; and all their cattle, all their livestock, and all their property they took as spoil [of war].

10They burned all the cities where they lived, and all their encampments with fire.