they called Ex 34:15,16 Jos 22:17 1Ki 11:1-8 Ps 106:28 Ho 9:10 1Co 10:20 10:27,28 2Co 6:16,17 Re 2:14

bowed Ex 20:5 23:24 Jos 23:7,16 1Ki 19:18

2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

joined Nu 25:5 De 4:3,4 Jos 22:17 Ps 106:28,29 Ho 9:10

the anger Jos 22:17 Jud 2:14,20 Ps 90:11 Jer 17:4

3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

all the heads Nu 25:14,15,18 Ex 18:25 De 4:3 Jos 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. De 13:6-9,13,15 21:23 2Sa 21:6,9 Es 7:9,10

that the fierce Nu 25:11 De 13:17 Jos 7:25,26 Ps 85:3,4 Jon 3:9

4 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.

judges Ex 18:21,25,26

slay ye Ex 22:20 32:27,28 De 13:6,9,13,15 17:3-5 1Ki 18:40

5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.

a Midianitish Nu 25:14,15 22:4 31:2,9-16

in the sight of Moses Nu 15:30,31 De 29:19-21 Jer 3:3 8:12 36:23 42:15-18 43:4-7 44:16,17 2Pe 2:13-15 Jude 1:13

weeping Jud 2:4 Ezr 9:1-4 10:6-9 Isa 22:12 Eze 9:4-6 Joe 2:17

6 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 weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Phinehas Ex 6:25 Jos 22:30,31 Jud 20:28

a javelin 1Sa 18:10,11 19:9

7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

thrust Nu 25:5,11 Ps 106:29-31

so the plague Nu 16:46-48 2Sa 24:25 1Ch 21:22

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 belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

Paul reckons only 23,000: Moses includes in the 24,000 he names, the 1000 men who were slain in consequence of the judicial examination, as well as the 23,000 who died of the plague; while Paul only refers to the latter. Nu 25:4,5 16:49,50 De 4:3,4 1Co 10:8

9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

turned my Jos 7:25,26 2Sa 21:14 Ps 106:23 Joh 3:36

for my sake. Heb. with my zeal 2Co 11:2

that I Ex 22:5 34:14 De 4:24 29:20 32:16,21 Jos 24:19 1Ki 14:22 Ps 78:58 Eze 16:38 Na 1:2, Zep 1:18 3:8 1Co 10:22

11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Nu 13:29 Mal 2:4,5 3:1

12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

his seed 1Sa 2:30 1Ki 2:27 1Ch 6:4-15,50-53

an everlasting Ex 40:15 Isa 61:6 Jer 33:18,22 Heb 7:11,17,18 1Pe 2:5,9 Re 1:6

zealous 1Ki 19:10,14 Ps 69:9 106:31 119:139 Joh 2:17 Ac 22:3-5 Ro 10:2-4

atonement Ex 32:30 Jos 7:12 2Sa 21:3 Heb 2:17 1Jo 2:2

13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

a prince Nu 25:4,5 2Ch 19:7

chief house. Heb. house of a father. the Simeonites Nu 1:23 26:14

14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

Zur Nu 31:8 Jos 13:21

15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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. Nu 31:2 Re 18:6

17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

vex you Nu 31:15,16 Ge 26:10 Ex 32:21,35 Re 2:14

beguiled Ge 3:13 2Co 11:3 2Pe 2:14,15,18

which Nu 25:8

18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

1 The sum of all Israel is taken in the plains of Moab
52 The law of dividing among them the inheritance of the land
57 The families and number of the Levites
63 None was left off them which were numbered at Sinai, but Caleb and Joshua

Nu 25:9