Israel’s Harlotry in Moab
1 Now Israel remained in aAcacia Grove, and the bpeople began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
2 aThey invited the people to bthe sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and cbowed down to their gods.
3 So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and athe anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel.
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, a“Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the Lord, out in the sun, bthat the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”
5 So Moses said to athe judges of Israel, b“Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.”
6 And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, awho were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
7 Now awhen Phinehas bthe son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;
8 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 body. So athe plague was bstopped among the children of Israel.
9 And athose who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
11 a“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in bMy zeal.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Adam Clarke for Numbers 25:2.
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