Num 25 | 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

turned my.

Jos 7:25,26; 2Sa 21:14; Ps 106:23; Joh 3:36

for my sake. Heb. with my zeal.

2Co 11:2

that I.

Ex 22:5; 34:14; De 4:24; 29:20; 32:16,21; Jos 24:19; 1Ki 14:22

Ps 78:58; Eze 16:38; Na 1:2; Zep 1:18; 3:8; 1Co 10:22

13:29; Mal 2:4,5; 3:1

his seed.

1Sa 2:30; 1Ki 2:27; 1Ch 6:4-15,50-53

an everlasting.

Ex 40:15; Isa 61:6; Jer 33:18,22; Heb 7:11,17,18; 1Pe 2:5,9

Re 1:6

zealous.

1Ki 19:10,14; Ps 69:9; 106:31; 119:139; Joh 2:17; Ac 22:3-5

Ro 10:2-4

atonement.

Ex 32:30; Jos 7:12; 2Sa 21:3; Heb 2:17; 1Jo 2:2

a prince.

4,5; 2Ch 19:7

chief house. Heb. house of a father. the Simeonites.

1:23; 26:14

Zur.

31:8; Jos 13:21

16 Balaam's counsel seems to have been first given to Balak, king of Moab; but probably the Midianitish women, especially of the higher ranks, as Cozbi was, were the principal tempters; and the nation of Midian seems to have come into the execrable measure more generally and heartily than that of Moab: they were therefore first selected to be made examples of, for a warning to the Moabites, who were spared at this time.

31:2; Re 18:6

vex you.

31:15,16; Ge 26:10; Ex 32:21,35; Re 2:14

beguiled.

Ge 3:13; 2Co 11:3; 2Pe 2:14,15,18

which.