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اعداد 25:1
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- CondensedBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Shittim: Numbers 33:49, Joshua 2:1, Joshua 3:1, Micah 6:5
the people: Numbers 31:15, Numbers 31:16, Ecclesiastes 7:26, 1 Corinthians 10:8
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:32 - nor with Exodus 34:16 - General Exodus 36:20 - shittim wood Numbers 7:15 - General Deuteronomy 4:3 - what the 1 Kings 11:2 - surely Ezra 9:1 - Moabites Psalms 78:32 - they sinned Psalms 106:28 - joined Proverbs 5:14 - General Proverbs 7:13 - she Proverbs 23:28 - increaseth Isaiah 2:6 - and they Isaiah 57:5 - Enflaming Jeremiah 5:7 - by troops Ezekiel 16:15 - and playedst Ezekiel 20:21 - the children Joel 3:18 - the valley Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Revelation 2:14 - Balaam Revelation 2:20 - and to seduce
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Israel abode in Shittim,.... A place in the plains of Moab, so called from the shittim wood, which grew here in great abundance, so often mentioned in the building of the tabernacle; which was a sort of white thorn, or rather the acacia tree, since there was scarcely any thing else grew in the deserts of Arabia, :- its full name was Abelshittim, Numbers 33:49, here the Israelites abode even to the death of Moses, for this was their last station in the wilderness; they were now on the borders of the land of Canaan, and just ready to enter into it, which is an aggravation of the sins they here fell into, and are next observed:
and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab; and of Midian also, as appears from Numbers 25:6 by the advice of Balaam, the Moabites and Midianites found ways and means to become familiar with the Israelites, and to introduce their daughters into their company and conversation, and being ensnared and enamoured with them, they were drawn to commit lewdness with them, and hereby were led on to commit other abominations, which brought the divine displeasure upon them; so that what they dared not attempt by war, and could not effect by sorceries and divinations, they accomplished by those iniquitous arts, namely, bringing the wrath, the curse, and plague of God upon them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The records of the neighboring cities of the plain, and the circumstances of the origin of Moab (Genesis 19:30 ff) suggest that the people among whom Israel was now thrown were more than ordinarily licentious.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXV
While Israel abode in Shittim the people commit whoredom with
the daughters of Moab, 1.
They become idolaters, 2.
The anger of the Lord is kindled against them, and he commands
the ringleaders to be hanged, 3, 4.
Moses causes the judges to slay the transgressors, 5.
Zimri, one of the Israelitish princes of the tribe of Simeon,
brings a Midianitish princess, named Cozbi, into his tent,
while the people are deploring their iniquity before the
tabernacle, 6.
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, incensed by this insult to the
laws and worship of God, runs after them and pierces them both
with a javelin, 7, 8.
Twenty-four thousand die of the plague, sent as a punishment for
their iniquity, 9.
The Lord grants to Phinehas a covenant of peace and an
everlasting priesthood, 10-13.
The name and quality of the Israelitish man and Midianitish
woman, 14, 15.
God commands the Israelites to vex and smite the Midianites, who
had seduced them to the worship of Baal-peor, 16-18.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXV
