Numbers 31:1-6

1Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2“1Take vengeance on the Midianites for the sons of Israel; afterward you will be 2gathered to your people.”

3So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, so that they may 3go against Midian to execute 4the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

4You shall send a thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel to the war.”

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

6And Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, 5and the holy implements and 6the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.