Numbers 25
1 And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and
the people
aHeb. חלל to begin and to profane, etc.profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called them to the
sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and
worshipped their idols. 3 And Israel
consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with
Israel. 4 And the Lord said to Moses,
Take all the princes of the people, and
bOr, put them to shame. See Heb. 6. 6.make them examples of judgment for the Lord in the
face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said to the tribes of
Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor.
6 And, behold, a man of the children
of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses,
and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were
weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
7 And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the
son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the
congregation, and took a
cGr. dagger.javelin in his hand, 8 and went in
after the Israelitish man into the
dGr. furnace, κάμινον. Trom renders lupanar. Heb. הקבה.chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the
woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague
were four and twenty thousand.
10 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, 11 Phinees the son of Eleazar
the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of
Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous
eOr, with or against them. Hebraism.among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Thus do thou say
to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:
13 and he and his seed after him
shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his
God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
14 Now the name of the smitten
Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Madianitish woman,
was Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the
tribe of Symeon. 15 And the name of
the Madianitish woman who was smitten, was Chasbi,
daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among
the people of Madiam.
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
17 Plague the Madianites as enemies,
and smite them, 18 for they are
enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and
through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was smitten
in the day of the plague because of Phogor.