“ Vex the Midianites, and smite them: ”
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 executio...
Vex. Compare Numbers 31 .
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 t...
Vex the Midianites, and smite them: Vex the Midianites, etc. - See this order fulfilled, Numbers 31:1-20 . Twelve thousand Israelites attacked the Midianites, destroyed all their cities, slew their...
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...
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 fel...
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 t...
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 t...
the Zeal of Phinehas against Impurity Numbers 25:1-18 Unable to curse Israel directly, Balaam suggested to Balak the device of destroying the union between Israel and their divine Protector by...
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 t...
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 13:6-11 .
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...
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...
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 w...
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 Mo...
16 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the...
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...
Numbers 25:16 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,' Then Yahweh added a further sentence to His judgment. Numbers 25:17-18 ‘Vex the Midianites, and smite them, for they vex you with their wi...
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 o...
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 t...
EXPOSITION THE SIN OF ISRAEL AND ATONEMENT OF PHINEHAS ( Numbers 25:1-4 ). Numbers 25:1 Abode in Shittim. For a considerable time; from their first arrival in the Arboth...
Numbers 31:2 ; Revelation 18:6
The Midianites — And why not the Moabites. It is probable the Midianites were most guilty, as in persuading Balak to send for Balaam, Numbers 22:4 , Numbers 22:7 . So in the reception of Balaam a...