Numbers 31:48 - Then the officers who were over the units of the army -- the commanders of 1000s and commanders of 100s -- went to Moses and said to him, "Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing."
12,000 men went to war against the Midianites (the people who had taken Joseph to Egypt in the first place), and not one of them died in battle. They killed all the Midianite men but not the women and children. Moses then commanded that all the women who were not virgins should be killed. That still left 32,000 women. Even if those had been the only women in the original group...do the math...how many men must there have been?
This was an amazing battle and victory! I wonder if Moses was surprised by the results. God hadn't promised zero losses. The army commanders sound surprised to me. They even made a special offering of thanks and praise to God that not one was missing.
Even though God didn't specifically tell Moses what he was going to do for Israel in this war, he does time and again promise in general to bless his faithful over and above what they dare to expect. I wonder if I have forgotten to give him special thanks and praise for any pleasant surprises he's sent my way.
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