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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:
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Numbers 25:6-7

behold, one of the children of Israel . . . brought . . . a Midianitish woman—This flagitious act most probably occurred about the time when the order was given and before its execution.

who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle—Some of the rulers and well-disposed persons were deploring the dreadful wickedness of the people and supplicating the mercy of God to avert impending judgments.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Numbers 25:6:

Deuteronomy 4:3-4
Deuteronomy 33:6
Hebrews 12:16

 

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