Num 25:1-9, Psa 106:29, 1Cor 6:9, 18, Rev 2:14 | TSK | STEP | Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry. Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi. God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood. The Midianites are to be vexed. Shittim. the people.

and hang.Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the Samaritan and Hebrew texts must be united to make the sense of this verse complete: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto all the heads of the people; and let them slay the men that were joined to Baal-peor; and hang them up before the Lord, against the sun," etc.

De 13:6-9,13,15; 21:23; 2Sa 21:6,9; Es 7:9,10

that the fierce.

11; De 13:17; Jos 7:25,26; Ps 85:3,4; Jon 3:9

judges.

Ex 18:21,25,26

Slay ye.

Ex 22:20; 32:27,28; De 13:6,9,13,15; 17:3-5; 1Ki 18:40

a Midianitish.

14,15; 22:4; 31:2,9-16

in the sight of Moses.

15:30,31; De 29:19-21; Jer 3:3; 8:12; 36:23; 42:15-18; 43:4-7

Jer 44:16,17; 2Pe 2:13-15; Jude 1:13

weeping.

Jud 2:4; Ezr 9:1-4; 10:6-9; Isa 22:12; Eze 9:4-6; Joe 2:17

Phinehas.

Ex 6:25; Jos 22:30,31; Jud 20:28

a javelin.

1Sa 18:10,11; 19:9

thrust.

5,11; Ps 106:29-31

So the plague.

16:46-48; 2Sa 24:25; 1Ch 21:22 St. Paul reckons only 23,000: Moses includes in the 24,000 he names, the 1,000 men who were slain in consequence of the judicial examination, (ver. 4,) as well as the 23,000 who died of the plague; while St. Paul only refers to the latter.

4,5; 16:49,50; De 4:3,4; 1Co 10:8