Chapter 25:
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Numbers 25
Concise Complete
The Israelites enticed by the daughters of Moab and
Midian. (1-5) Phinehas puts Zimri and Cozbi to death. (6-15) The Midianites to
be punished. (16-18)
Verses 1-5 The
friendship of the wicked is more dangerous than their enmity; for none can
prevail against God's people if they are not overcome by their inbred lusts; nor
can any enchantment hurt them, but the enticements of worldly interests and
pleasures. Here is the sin of Israel, to which they are enticed by the daughters
of Moab and Midian. Those are our worst enemies who draw us to sin, for that is
the greatest mischief any man can do us. Israel's sin did that which all
Balaam's enchantments could not do; it set God against them. Diseases are the
fruits of God's anger, and the just punishments of prevailing sins; one
infection follows the other. Ringleaders in sin ought to be made examples of
justice.
Verses 6-15
Phinehas, in the courage of zeal and faith, executed vengeance on Zimri and
Cozbi. This act can never be an example for private revenge, or religious
persecution, or for irregular public vengeance.
Verses 16-18 We
read not that any Midianites died of the plague; God punished them with the
sword of an enemy, not with the rod of a father. We must set ourselves against
whatever is an occasion of sin to us,
matthew 5:29,30.
Whatever draws us to sin, should be a vexation to us, as a thorn in the flesh.
And none will be more surely and severely punished than those who, after Satan's
example, and with his subtlety, tempt others to sin.
Chapter 25:
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