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Verse Numbers 25:17. _VEX THE MIDIANITES, C._] See this order
fulfilled, Numbers 31:1. Twelve thousand Israelites attacked the
Midianites, destroyed all their cities, slew their five kings, every
male...
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2. ISRAEL'S SIN WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MOAB: PHINEHAS
CHAPTER 25
_ 1. The transgression and the anger of Jehovah (Numbers 25:1)_
2. Phinehas' action (Numbers 25:6)
3. Phinehas and his reward (Numbe...
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NUMBERS 25. In this chapter fragments of two distinct narratives have
been united. In the first (from JE), the Israelites sin with _Moabite_
women, and the sin is punished by the _judicial execution_...
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VEX. Compare Numbers 31....
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are an editorial note. The compiler who placed side by side the two
narratives in Numbers 25:1 here combines them in such a way as to
represent the _Midianites_as responsible for tempting Israel in bo...
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VEX THE MIDIANITES— The Moabites are not named. See Deuteronomy 2:9.
It is not unlikely, that the Midianites had the principal hand in this
seduction of the Israelites; ready as we find they were to p...
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C. JEHOVAH DENOUNCES THE MIDIANITES vv. 16-18
TEXT
Numbers 25:16. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 17. Vex the
Midianites, and smite them: 18. For they vex with their wiles,
wherewith they have...
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_VEX THE MIDIANITES, AND SMITE THEM:_
Vex the Midianites. They seem to have been the most guilty parties
(cf. Numbers 22:4; Numbers 31:8), and on them the storm of vengeance
exclusively fell; while t...
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IDOLATRY AND IMMORALITY OF THE ISRAELITES AT SHITTIM. THE ZEAL OF
PHINEHAS
1-5. The Israelites, who have just been exhibited as proof against
enchantments, are not able to resist the temptations to id...
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 25
THE *ISRAELITES *WORSHIP FALSE GODS – NUMBERS 25:1-18
V1 The *Israelites were camping in the valley call
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VEX THE MIDIANITES, AND SMITE THEM. — The Midianites appear to have
been joint actors with the Moabites throughout the whole of the
opposition which was offered to Israel, and the chief actors in the...
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צָרֹ֖ור אֶת ־הַ מִּדְיָנִ֑ים וְ
הִכִּיתֶ֖ם אֹ
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THE ZEAL OF PHINEHAS AGAINST IMPURITY
Numbers 25:1
Unable to curse Israel directly, Balaam suggested to Balak the device
of destroying the union between Israel and their divine Protector by
enticing...
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The influence of Balaam is revealed in what is now recorded. The words
of Jesus in His letter to the Church at Pergamum, quoted in our last
note, are closely connected with the statement with which th...
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_Madianites. God spared the Moabites for the sake of Lot (Deuteronomy
ii. 19,) and of Ruth, of whom David and Christ should be born. They
were perhaps less guilty, but they did not escape due chastise...
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If we take this precept spiritually, it teaches that we are not to
spare, nor suffer our eye to pity any, however dear or near to us in
nature, who tempt us from our GOD. Deuteronomy 13:6....
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The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their
neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a
striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
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17._Vex the Midianites, and smite them. _Inasnmch as God constantly
forbids His people to take vengeance, it is surprising that the people
of Israel should now be instigated to do so; as if they were...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25.
Moab also opposes in vain. Now they are in the plains of Moab, having
only Jordan between them and the land of their rest. But had they a...
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VEX THE MIDIANITES, AND SMITE THEM. Go to war with them, and smite
them with the sword; not the Moabites, but the Midianites, though they
were both confederates against Israel; but God had given a cha...
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_Vex the Midianites, and smite them:_
Ver. 17. _Vex the Midianites._] As more malicious and mischievous than
the Moabites; as appears, (1.) By their detaining of Balaam, when the
Moabites dismissed h...
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_Vex the Midianites_ It is probable, from Numbers 25:6, compared with
Numbers 21:16, that the Midianites had had the principal hand in
seducing the Israelites into this shameful revolt from the worshi...
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1 Israel at Shittim commit whoredome and Idolatrie.
6 Phinees killeth Zimri and Cozbi.
10 God therefore giueth him an euerlasting Priesthood.
16 The Midianites are to be vexed.
[PHINEHAS KILLETH Z...
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ISRAEL SEDUCED BY MOAB
(vs.1-18)
God had intervened to bless Israel when Moab was anxious to curse
them. How inappropriate and senseless therefore was the harlotry of
the men with the women of Moab....
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16-18 We read not that any Midianites died of the plague; God
punished them with the sword of an enemy, not with the rod of a
father. We must set ourselves against whatever is an occasion of sin
to u...
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And why not the Moabites, who were as guilty, NUMBERS 25:1 ? ANSW.
1. Because God will reserve to himself a liberty of punishing or
sparing, according to his own good pleasure.
2. God had a kindness...
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Here a new scene opens upon our view. We have been on the top of
Pisgah, hearkening to God's testimony respecting Israel, and there all
was bright and fair, without a cloud, without a spot. But now we...
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Numbers 25:17 Harass H6887 (H8800) Midianites H4084 attack H5221
(H8689)
Numbers 31:2;...
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Numbers 25:16
‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,'
Then Yahweh added a further sentence to His judgment.
Numbers 25:17
‘Vex the Midianites, and smite them, for they vex you with their
wiles, with w...
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CONTENTS: Sin of Israel with daughters of Moab.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Zimri, Phinehas, Cozbi.
CONCLUSION: God's people are more endangered by the charms of a
smiling world than by the terrors of a...
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Numbers 25:1. _The people began to commit whoredom._ Balaam stands
accused of being the adviser of this intercourse with the Israelites.
These illicit practices prepared the way for the feast, so that...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 25:1 Once again, Israel is unfaithful to the
Lord. However, unlike earlier times when they were unfaithful—at
Sinai (Exodus 25:1) and at Kadesh ...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 25:16 The ongoing struggle with MIDIAN is
reported in ch. Numbers 31:1 and...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
Numbers 25:1. _Shittim_. An abbreviation of Abel-Shittim, “the
meadow of the acacias.” It was situated in the plains of Moab, at
the northern extremity of the camp of I...
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EXPOSITION
THE SIN OF ISRAEL AND ATONEMENT OF PHINEHAS (Numbers 25:1).
NUMBERS 25:1
ABODE IN SHITTIM. For a considerable t
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AND Israel was abiding there in Shittim, and the people began to
commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people
into the sacrifices of their gods (Numbers 25:1-2):
You see the...
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Numbers 31:2; Revelation 18:6...