Thrust them both through Phinehas was himself a man in great authority, and did this after the command given by Moses to the rulers to slay these transgressors, and in the very sight, and no doubt by the consent of Moses himself, and also by the special direction of God's Spirit.
Verse Numbers 25:8. _THRUST BOTH OF THEM THROUGH_] Inspired undoubtedly by the Spirit of the God of justice to do this act, which can never be a _precedent_ on any common occasion. An act something s...
INTO THE TENT - The inner recess in the tent, fashioned archwise, and appropriated as the sleeping-chamber and women’s apartment....
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...
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_...
TENT. Hebrew. _kubbah,_. high and vaulted pleasure tent, used in the worship of Baal. Occurs only here. BELLY. Hebrew. _kobah,_ the part between the ribs, and loins. Occurs only here, for the Figure...
_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...
_the pavilion_ Heb. _ḳubbâh_; a large vaulted tent; -alcove" (R.V. marg.) has gained a different significance, but it is only the Arabic equivalent to the Heb. word with the article _al_prefixed. The...
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...
AND HE WENT, &C.— _And he went after the man of Israel into the bed-room,_—[_apartment,—alcove_] _and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel. and the woman, in her bed-room._ Vid. Nold. 62. 82...
II. IN MOAB (NUMBERS 25; NUMBERS 26; NUMBERS 27) A. GRAVE SINS WITH THE MOABITES (Numbers 25:1-9) TEXT...
_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 af...
There is no previous mention of a plague having broken out, and the word can hardly apply to the slaughter in Numbers 25:5. We are here dealing with a separate incident....
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...
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
INTO THE TENT. — The word k_ubbah_ (tent, or alcove) occurs only in this place. The reference may be to the inner part of the ordinary tent which was occupied by the women; or it may denote an arched...
וַ֠ יָּבֹא אַחַ֨ר אִֽישׁ ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶל ־הַ
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...
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...
Parts. Ovid says, Lethifer ille locus, "That place where wounds so often deadly prove." Hebrew kubbak, means brothel-house just before, a bead, vault, cistern, belly, &c. Septuagint translate, "throug...
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...
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...
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...
AND HE WENT AFTER THE MAN OF ISRAEL INTO THE TENT,.... Into which he went with his harlot; the word here used is different from what is commonly used for a tent: Aben Ezra observes that in the Kedaren...
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. Ver. 8. _...
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...
and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, into the sleeping apartment, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague, which the Lord had s...
The Zeal of Phinehas....
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....
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...
INTO THE TENT, or _brothel house_; for since they gave way to such lewd practices, no doubt they singled out convenient places for their wickedness. THRUST BOTH OF THEM THROUGH; which is no warrant fo...
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...
Numbers 25:8 went H935 (H8799) after H310 man H376 Israel H3478 tent H6898 thrust H1856 (H8799) both...
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...
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...
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 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...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 25:1 Once again, Israel is unfaithful to the Lord. However, unlike earlier times when they were unfaithful—at Sinai (Exodus 25:1) and at Kadesh ...
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 thi...
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...
EXPOSITION THE SIN OF ISRAEL AND ATONEMENT OF PHINEHAS (Numbers 25:1). NUMBERS 25:1 ABODE IN SHITTIM. For a considerable t
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...
1 Chronicles 21:22; 2 Samuel 24:25; Numbers 16:46; Numbers 25:11;...
Thrust them thro' — Phineas was himself a man in great authority, and did this after the command given by Moses to the rulers to slay these transgressors, and in the very sight, and no doubt by the co...