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Numbers 25:7-8

NUMBERS—NOTE ON Numbers 25:7 Phinehas, the high priest’s son, executes the chief’s son and the princess. His action stopped the plague that God sent to punish the people. Phinehas was rewarded for this by becoming the head of a permanent priestly dynasty (vv. Numbers 25:10).

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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_...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PHINEHAS. Compare Psalms 106:30....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The zeal of Phinehas, and its reward_. The passage belongs to the period after the exile, when those only were recognised as priests who could trace their ancestry through Phinehas, and Eleazar his f...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEN PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELEAZAR—SAW IT, &C.— Phinehas was a man of great authority, being next to the high priest, whom he succeeded in office. Warmed with a religious zeal at this insolent and unfe...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. IN MOAB (NUMBERS 25; NUMBERS 26; NUMBERS 27) A. GRAVE SINS WITH THE MOABITES (Numbers 25:1-9) TEXT...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELEAZAR, THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST, SAW IT, HE ROSE UP FROM AMONG THE CONGREGATION, AND TOOK A JAVELIN IN HIS HAND;_ Phinehas ... saw it, he rose up ... - i:e., he as...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHEN PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELEAZAR, THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST... — In accordance with this punctuation, the designation _the priest_ (which generally denotes the high priest) refers to Aaron, not...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֗רְא פִּֽינְחָס֙ בֶּן ־אֶלְעָזָ֔ר בֶּֽן...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dagger. Josephus translates romach, by romphaia, "a sword." Septuagint by seiromasten, a long and sharp iron rod, like a spit, such as people used to try if any smuggled goods be concealed. (Haydock)...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a lovely view is here afforded of Phinehas? How ought it to have endeared him to the congregation? How hath it endeared his name in the church! The psalmist recorded the memorable and holy zeal o...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar. _The courage of Phinehas is celebrated, who, whilst the rest were hesitating, inflamed with holy zeal, hastens forward to inflict punishment. The backwardness...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELEAZAR, THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST, SAW IT,.... Saw the man pass by in this impudent manner, and his whore with him; his spirit was stirred up, he was filled and fired...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw [it], he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; Ver. 7. _He rose up._] A heroical act, by an extr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Phinehas rose up_ The psalmist says, _He stood up and executed judgment;_ which seems to import that he acted as a judge; but in a crime so presumptuous, and so openly committed, he thought it not ne...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, and the next in order of succession for the office of high priest, SAW IT, namely, this brazen, challenging shamelessness, HE ROSE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Zeal of Phinehas....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-15 Phinehas, in the courage of zeal and faith, executed vengeance on Zimri and Cozbi. This act can never be an example for private revenge, or religious persecution, or for irregular public vengeanc...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 25:7 Phinehas H6372 son H1121 Eleazar H499 son H1121 Aaron H175 priest H3548 saw H7200 (H8799) rose...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PHINEHAS, SON OF ELEAZAR, SLAYS THE CHIEFTAIN AND THE WOMAN (NUMBERS 25:7 A). Numbers 25:7 a ‘And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab._ THE SIN OF ISRAEL AT SHITTIM, AND THE JUDGMENT OF GOD I. The sin of the Israelites at Shittim. 1. The sin itself. (1) Spiritual fo...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE SIN OF ISRAEL AND ATONEMENT OF PHINEHAS (Numbers 25:1). NUMBERS 25:1 ABODE IN SHITTIM. For a considerable t

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 18:10; 1 Samuel 18:11; 1 Samuel 19:9; Exodus 6:25; Joshua 22:

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