And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Ver. 9. Twenty and four thousand.] Twenty and three thousand, saith St Paul, 1Co 10:8 insisting only in the special punishment of the people, who were provoked to sin by that other thousand, their princes, Num 25:4 and all to show, quam frigida et ieiuna sit eorum defensio, &c., saith Junius, a how poorly they plead for themselves, that think to excuse their sins by alleging the examples of their superiors.
a Jun., Parallel.