聖書に31という数字の意味はない — それは王の数とヨシヤの統治年数である

Thirty-one has no symbolic meaning in Scripture. It is a count, and its most memorable use is a tally at the end of a war. Thirty-one kings Joshua 12 is a list. It names the kings defeated west of the Jordan, one after another, in the same short formula: the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, one; the king of Jerusalem, one. Thirty-one entries, and then the total: thirty-one kings in all (Joshua 12:24). It reads like an…