Numbers 25:1

CHAPTER XXV

While Israel abode in Shittim the people commit whoredom with

the daughters of Moab, 1.

They become idolaters, 2.

The anger of the Lord is kindled against them, and he commands

the ringleaders to be hanged, 3, 4.

Moses causes the judges to slay the transgressors, 5.

Zimri, one of the Israelitish princes of the tribe of Simeon,

brings a Midianitish princess, named Cozbi, into his tent,

while the people are deploring their iniquity before the

tabernacle, 6.

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, incensed by this insult to the

laws and worship of God, runs after them and pierces them both

with a javelin, 7, 8.

Twenty-four thousand die of the plague, sent as a punishment for

their iniquity, 9.

The Lord grants to Phinehas a covenant of peace and an

everlasting priesthood, 10-13.

The name and quality of the Israelitish man and Midianitish

woman, 14, 15.

God commands the Israelites to vex and smite the Midianites, who

had seduced them to the worship of Baal-peor, 16-18.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXV