Numbers 31:8
“The soothsayer Balaam set up a scandal for the people of Israel when he went to meet their warriors, not with men in armor but with women arrayed in all their finery. He hoped to make the men drop their arms for debauchery, change their triumph into disgrace, bring the avengers of guilt into guilt themselves and—to pu…”
Source: Septuagint
8And they slew the kings of Midian together with their slain subjects; even Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and they slew with the sword Balaam the son of Beor with their other slain.
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6And Moses sent them away a thousand of every tribe with their forces, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: and the holy instruments, and the signal trumpets were in their hands.
7And they set themselves in array against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
— Numbers 31:8 —
9And they made a prey of the women of Midian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces.
10And they burned with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation, and they burned their villages with fire.