The Torah/Matot

Questions
Here are a few of the questions that the Rabbis raised about this Torah reading:


 * Are vows good or bad?


 * What is the Biblical basis for the law of the dissolution of vows?


 * Does God vow? If so, is God bound by the vow?


 * May one annul a vow on the Sabbath?


 * Why did the Israelites pillage the Midianites?


 * Did the Reubenites and Gadites have an honorable reason to settle outside the Land of Israel?


 * How can one honor the command of Numbers 32:22 that “you shall be clear before the Lord and before Israel”?