Shittim: Numbers 33:49; Joshua 2:1, Joshua 3:1; Micah 6:5
the people: Numbers 31:15-16; Ecclesiastes 7:26; 1 Corinthians 10:8
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Numbers 25:1
Numbers 25:1
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Numbers 25 — OverviewNumbers 25 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIsrael, having escaped the curse of Balaam, here sustains a great deal
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he left Balak, put him into a more effectual way than that which Balak…Numbers 25 — OverviewNumbers 25 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeNumbers 25:1, Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry; Numbers 25:6, Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi; Numbers 25:10, God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood; Numbers 25:16, The Midianites are to be vexed.Numbers 25 — OverviewNumbers 25 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe contents of this chapter are, the sin of the people of Israel, their whoredom and idolatry, Nu 25:1, their punishment for it, multitudes being slain, Nu 25:4, whose number is given, Nu 25:9, the zeal of Phinehas in…Numbers 25:1-5Numbers 25:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. The sin of Israel, to which they were enticed by the
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