Numbers 25:4

Overview - Numbers 25
Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry.
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 25:4  (King James Version)
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
 


all the heads
Numbers 25:14 Numbers 25:15 Numbers 25:18 ; Exodus 18:25 ; Deuteronomy 4:3 ; Joshua 22:17 ; 23:2

and hang
Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the Samaritan and Hebrew texts must be united to make the sense of this verse complete: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto all the heads of the people; and let them slay the men that were joined to Baal-peor; and hang them up before the Lord, against the sun," etc.
Deuteronomy 13:6-9 Deuteronomy 13:13 Deuteronomy 13:15 ; 21:23 2 Samuel 21:6 2 Samuel 21:9 ; Esther 7:9 Esther 7:10

that the fierce
11 ; Deuteronomy 13:17 ; Joshua 7:25 Joshua 7:26 ; Psalms 85:3 Psalms 85:4 ; Jonah 3:9