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Números 25:4
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Disse o SENHOR a Moiss: Toma todos os cabeas do povo, e enforca-os ao SENHOR diante do sol, e o ardor da ira do SENHOR se retirar de Israel.
Disse o SENHOR a Moiss: Toma todos os cabeas do povo e enforca-os ao SENHOR ao ar livre, e a ardente ira do SENHOR se retirar de Israel.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
all the heads: Numbers 25:14, Numbers 25:15, Numbers 25:18, Exodus 18:25, Deuteronomy 4:3, Joshua 22:17, Joshua 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, Deuteronomy 21:23, 2 Samuel 21:6, 2 Samuel 21:9, Esther 7:9, Esther 7:10
that the fierce: Numbers 25:11, Deuteronomy 13:17, Joshua 7:25, Joshua 7:26, Psalms 85:3, Psalms 85:4, Jonah 3:9
Reciprocal: Numbers 1:4 - General Numbers 25:9 - General Deuteronomy 21:22 - General Joshua 10:26 - hanged 2 Kings 10:6 - take ye Ezra 10:14 - the fierce Hosea 14:4 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Being provoked with the sins of the people, he called to him out of the tabernacle, or out of the cloud:
take all the heads of the people, the princes of the tribes, not to hang them, but to judge those that worshipped Peor, as Jarchi interprets it; though some think that these having sinned, were ordered to be taken and hanged, and made public examples of; but it can hardly be thought, though there were some that might be guilty of the above sins, as Zimri, yet not all of them:
hang them up before the Lord against the sun; that is, those that were guilty of idolatry: the meaning is, and which all the Targums give into, that these heads of the people were to assemble at some proper place, the court of judicature, and order the delinquents to be brought before them, and try, judge, and condemn those they found guilty, and cause them to be hanged somewhere near the tabernacle, and before it, having neglected the worship of God there, and served an idol; and this was to be done openly in the daytime, that all might see and fear; and if it was the sun that was worshipped in this idol, as some think, they were hanged against the sun, to show that the idol they worshipped was not able to deliver them; but, in the face of it, and as it were in defiance of it, they were ordered to be hanged up; and this, according to the Targum of Jonathan, was in the morning against the rising sun, and where they hung all day, and were taken down at sun setting:
that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel; when justice had taken place, and proper punishment was inflicted upon the criminals, whereby a just resentment was made against sin, and God glorified.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Take - i. e., assemble the chiefs of the people to thee (compare the phrase “took men,” in Numbers 16:1). The offenders were to be first; slain by the hands of “the judges of Israel” Numbers 25:5, and afterward hung up “against the sun” (i. e., publicly, openly; compare 2 Samuel 12:12) as an aggravation of their punishment. This would be done by impaling the body or fastening it to a cross. Compare Deuteronomy 21:23 note, and 2 Samuel 21:9.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 25:4. Take all the heads of the people, c. — Meaning the chiefs of those who had transgressed as if he had said, "Assemble the chiefs and judges, institute an inquiry concerning the transgressors, and hang them who shall be found guilty before the Lord, as a matter required by his justice." Against the sun - in the most public manner, and in daylight.
Dr. Kennicott has remarked that the Samaritan and Hebrew texts must be both taken together, to make the sense here 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, &c.
