_AND ISRAEL ABODE IN SHITTIM, AND THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO COMMIT WHOREDOM WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MOAB._ ISRAEL ABODE IN SHITTIM х_ BA-SHITIYM_ (H7851)] - always with the article prefixed (Joshua 2:1; Joshua 3:1); fully expressed х_ NACHAL_ (H5158) _ HA-SHITIYM_ (H7851)] (Joel 3:18, where, however, the na... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CALLED THE PEOPLE UNTO THE SACRIFICES OF THEIR GODS: AND THE PEOPLE DID EAT, AND BOWED DOWN TO THEIR GODS._ They called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods, х_ 'ªLOHEEYHEN_ (H430)] - i:e., the gods of the daughters of Moab, the pronominal adjunct being feminine. The word _ 'ªLOHI... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISRAEL JOINED HIMSELF UNTO BAALPEOR: AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST ISRAEL._ Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor. Baal was a general name for 'lord,' and Peor either for a hill in Moab, or derived from a verb signifying to open, to uncover, with reference to the abominable pria... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, TAKE ALL THE HEADS OF THE PEOPLE, AND HANG THEM UP BEFORE THE LORD AGAINST THE SUN, THAT THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD MAY BE TURNED AWAY FROM ISRAEL._ Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up. The language is somewhat ambiguous, and may mean either that Mose... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL, SLAY YE EVERY ONE HIS MEN THAT WERE JOINED UNTO BAALPEOR._ Judges of Israel - the seventy elders, who were commanded not only to superintend the execution within their respective jurisdictions, but to inflict the punishment with their own hands (see the no... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, ONE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME AND BROUGHT UNTO HIS BRETHREN A MIDIANITISH WOMAN IN THE SIGHT OF MOSES, AND IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHO WERE WEEPING BEFORE_ _ THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION._ Behold, one of the children of Is... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 assumed the office of judge, and performed the duty from which, probably in deference to the princely... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WENT AFTER THE MAN OF ISRAEL INTO THE TENT, AND THRUST BOTH OF THEM THROUGH, THE MAN OF ISRAEL, AND THE WOMAN THROUGH HER BELLY. SO THE PLAGUE WAS STAYED FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ Went after the man of Israel into the tent, х_ HAQUBAAH_ (H6898)] - the alcove, or projection in the poster... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOSE THAT DIED IN THE PLAGUE WERE TWENTY AND FOUR THOUSAND._ Those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. Only 23,000 perished (1 Corinthians 10:8) from pestilence. Moses includes in his record those who were executed by the judges. Like the amputation of a diseased limb, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELEAZAR, THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST, HATH TURNED MY WRATH AWAY FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHILE HE WAS ZEALOUS FOR MY SAKE AMONG THEM, THAT I CONSUMED NOT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN MY JEALOUSY._ Phinehas ... hath turned my wrath away. This assurance was a signal mark of hon... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE SAY, BEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO HIM MY COVENANT OF PEACE:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THE NAME OF THE ISRAELITE THAT WAS SLAIN, EVEN THAT WAS SLAIN WITH THE MIDIANITISH WOMAN, WAS ZIMRI, THE SON OF SALU, A PRINCE OF A CHIEF HOUSE AMONG THE SIMEONITES._ Zimri ... a prince ... among the Simeonites. The slaughter of a person of such high rank is mentioned as a proof of the unflinc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE NAME OF THE MIDIANITISH WOMAN THAT WAS SLAIN WAS COZBI, THE DAUGHTER OF ZUR; HE WAS HEAD OVER A PEOPLE, AND OF A CHIEF HOUSE IN MIDIAN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 the Moabites were not only spared, but this matter of Peor is not enumerated among their offences aga... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THEY VEX YOU WITH THEIR WILES, WHEREWITH THEY HAVE BEGUILED YOU IN THE MATTER OF PEOR, AND IN THE MATTER OF COZBI, THE DAUGHTER OF A PRINCE OF MIDIAN, THEIR SISTER, WHICH WAS SLAIN IN THE DAY OF THE PLAGUE FOR_ _ PEOR'S SAKE._ They vex you with their wiles. Instead of open war, they plot insid... [ Continue Reading ]