Numbers 31:2-10

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.

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

8They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of those killed: 8Evi, Rekem, 9Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed 10Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

9And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and they plundered all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their property.

10Then they 11burned all their cities where they lived and all their encampments.