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This book is so called because it contains an account of the enumeration and arrangement of the Israelites. The early part of it, from the first through the tenth chapters, appears to be a supplement to Leviticus, being occupied with relating the appointment of the Levites to the sacred offices. The journal of the march through the wilderness is then given as far as Num 21:20; after which the early incidents of the invasion are narrated. One direct quotation only from this book (Num 16:5) is made in the New Testament (Ti2 2:19); but indirect references to it by the later sacred writers are very numerous. \n\n\n\nNext: Numbers Chapter 1\n\n","order":4,"numberOfChapters":36,"sha256":"dc5ca404ac1531d2e19fee68d03d248ad59a1b182c657bb8a31928941af87d6b","firstChapterNumber":1,"firstChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/NUM/1.json","firstChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"NUM","chapter":1},"lastChapterNumber":36,"lastChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/NUM/36.json","lastChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"NUM","chapter":36},"totalNumberOfVerses":372},"chapter":{"number":25,"content":[{"type":"verse","number":3,"content":["Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor--Baal was a general name for \"lord,\" and Peor for a \"mount\" in Moab. The real name of the idol was Chemosh, and his rites of worship were celebrated by the grossest obscenity. In participating in this festival, then, the Israelites committed the double offense of idolatry and licentiousness.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":4,"content":["The Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up--Israelite criminals, who were capitally punished, were first stoned or slain, and then gibbeted. The persons ordered here for execution were the principal delinquents in the Baal-peor outrage--the subordinate officers, rulers of tens or hundreds. \n\nbefore the Lord--for vindicating the honor of the true God. \n\nagainst the sun--that is, as a mark of public ignominy; but they were to be removed towards sunset (Deu 21:23).\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":5,"content":["judges of Israel--the seventy elders, who were commanded not only to superintend the execution within their respective jurisdictions, but to inflict the punishment with their own hands. (See on Sa1 15:33).\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":6,"content":["behold, one of the children of Israel . . . brought . . . a Midianitish woman--This flagitious act most probably occurred about the time when the order was given and before its execution. \n\nwho were weeping before the door of the tabernacle--Some of the rulers and well-disposed persons were deploring the dreadful wickedness of the people and supplicating the mercy of God to avert impending judgments.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":8,"content":["the plague--some sudden and widespread mortality.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":9,"content":["those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand--Only twenty-three thousand perished (Co1 10:8) from pestilence. Moses includes those who died by the execution of the judges [Num 25:5].\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":11,"content":["Phinehas . . . hath turned my wrath away--This assurance was a signal mark of honor that the stain of blood, instead of defiling, confirmed him in office and that his posterity should continue as long as the national existence of Israel.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":14,"content":["Zimri, . . . a prince . . . among the Simeonites--The slaughter of a man of such high rank is mentioned as a proof of the undaunted zeal of Phinehas, for there might be numerous avengers of his blood.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"content":["Vex the Midianites, and smite them--They seem to have been the most guilty parties. (Compare Num 22:4; Num 31:8).\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":18,"content":["they vex you with their wiles--Instead of open war, they plot insidious ways of accomplishing your ruin by idolatry and corruption. \n\ntheir sister--their countrywoman.\n\n\n\n\nNext: Numbers Chapter 26\n\n"]}],"introduction":"THE ISRAELITES' WHOREDOM AND IDOLATRY WITH MOAB. (Num. 25:1-18)\n\nIsrael abode in Shittim--a verdant meadow, so called from a grove of acacia trees which lined the eastern side of the Jordan. (See Num 33:49).\n\n"},"thisChapterLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/NUM/25.json","thisChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"NUM","chapter":25},"nextChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/NUM/26.json","nextChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"NUM","chapter":26},"previousChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/NUM/24.json","previousChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"NUM","chapter":24},"numberOfVerses":10}