It is hardly possible to conceive any act so daring as this. But, alas! what is not the human heart capable of perpetrating, when given up to its own lusts! That is a most awful scripture which saith, Let Ephraim alone he is joined to his idols. Hosea 4:17. Reader! put it down as a sure maxim: when the LORD ceases to correct, destruction is at hand. See those Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 11:32; Amos 3:2 compared with Isaiah 1:5.
Verse Numbers 25:6. _ONE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL_] _Zimri_, the son of _Salu_, a prince of a chief family in the tribe of _Simeon_, Numbers 25:14, _brought a Midianitish woman, Cozbi_, daughter of...
A MIDIANITE WOMAN - literally, “the Midianite woman,” the particular one by whom he had been enticed (compare Numbers 25:15 and Numbers 31:18). Her high rank proves that Zimri had not fallen in with h...
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_...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. CHILDREN. sons. WHO. and they. DOOR. entrance. Hebrew. _'ohel._ App-40. TABERNACLE. tent....
_while they were weeping_ The reason for their weeping is not found till Numbers 25:8 f.; a plague had been sent. The beginning of the narrative stating the reason for the plague has been lost. But it...
_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...
ONE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME AND BROUGHT, &C.— One cannot conceive a higher degree of insolence and wickedness than this of Zimri; who thought, perhaps, that the eminence of his rank would secur...
II. IN MOAB (NUMBERS 25; NUMBERS 26; NUMBERS 27) A. GRAVE SINS WITH THE MOABITES (Numbers 25:1-9) TEXT...
_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 W...
_WERE_ WEEPING] on account of the plague (Numbers 25:8)....
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
וְ הִנֵּ֡ה אִישׁ֩ מִ בְּנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל בָּ֗
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...
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, (e) who [we...
One, Zambri, ver. 14. (Menochius) --- Went in. Hebrew, "brought unto his brethren, or came....with a woman of Madian." Septuagint, "introduced one of his brethren to a Madianite woman." But the Samari...
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...
6._And, behold, one of the children of Israel came. _Moses here relates a case which was foul and detestable beyond others. There is no doubt but that many, in the midst of such gross licentiousness 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, BEHOLD, ONE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME,.... From one of the cities of Moab or Midian, the latter rather, by what follows; where he had been, very probably, to an idolatrous feast, and had eat...
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]...
_Behold one came_ This was done when Moses had given the charge to the judges, and, as it may seem, before the execution of it; otherwise it is probable he would not have been so foolish as to have ru...
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...
The Zeal of Phinehas....
And, behold, one of the children of Israel came, even while this execution was in progress, AND BROUGHT UNTO HIS BRETHREN, into the camp of the Israelites, A MIDIANITISH WOMAN IN THE SIGHT OF MOSES AN...
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...
This was done, either, 1. Before God's command to Moses, and by him to the judges, NUMBERS 25:4,5, such transpositions and disorders being not unusual in sacred story. Or rather, 2. In the order it i...
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 25:6 one H376 children H1121 Israel H3478 came H935 (H8802) presented H7126 (H8686) brethren H251 woman...
A MIDIANITISH WOMAN IS BROUGHT INTO THE CAMP BY A SIMEONITE CHIEFTAIN (NUMBERS 25:6). Numbers 25:6 ‘And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianitish woman in...
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 25:6 A chief’s son (v. Numbers 25:14) openly violates the ban on sexual relationships with foreign women by taking a MIDIANITE princess (v....
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...
2 Peter 2:13; Deuteronomy 29:19; Ezekiel 9:4; Ezra 10:6; Ezra 9:1;...
One came — This was done, when Moses had given the charge to the Judges, and, as it may seem, before the execution of it; otherwise it is probable he would not have been so foolish to have run upon ce...