Numbers 25:17
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| Overview - Numbers 25 | |
| 1 | Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry. |
| 6 | Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi. |
| 10 | God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood. |
| 16 | The Midianites are to be vexed. |
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Numbers 25:17 (King James Version)
Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
- Balaam's counsel seems to have been first given to Balak, king of Moab; but probably the Midianitish women, especially of the higher ranks, as Cozbi was, were the principal tempters; and the nation of Midian seems to have come into the execrable measure more generally and heartily than that of Moab: they were therefore first selected to be made examples of, for a warning to the Moabites, who were spared at this time.
- 31:2 Revelation 18:6