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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Vex the Midianites, and smite them. Go to war with them, and smite them with the sword; not the Moabites, but the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Numbers 25:16-18
God had punished the Israelites for their sin with a plague; as a Father he corrected his own children with a rod. But…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921Numbers 25:16-18
are an editorial note. The compiler who placed side by side the two narratives in Num 25:1-15 here combines them in such…