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Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Numeri 25:17
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Behandelt de Midianieten vijandig en verslaat hen;
Handel vijandelijk met de Midianieten, en versla hen;
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Balaam's counsel seems to have been first given to Balak, king of Moab; but probably the Midianitish women, especially of the higher ranks, as Cozbi was, were the principal tempters; and the nation of Midian seems to have come into the execrable measure more generally and heartily than that of Moab: they were therefore first selected to be made examples of, for a warning to the Moabites, who were spared at this time. Numbers 31:2, Revelation 18:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 25:2 - Midian Genesis 37:28 - Midianites Deuteronomy 25:17 - General Judges 6:1 - Midian
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Vex the Midianites, and smite them. Go to war with them, and smite them with the sword; not the Moabites, but the Midianites, though they were both confederates against Israel; but God had given a charge not to contend in battle with Moab, Deuteronomy 2:9, they were spared for the sake of Lot, from whom they sprang; and, as Jarchi says, for the sake of Ruth, who was to come from them; and so in the Talmud l; though they did not entirely escape the divine resentment, as appears from
Deuteronomy 23:3 but the Midianites were the first that advised to send for Balaam, and with them he stayed and was entertained, after he had been dismissed by Balak; and it seems as if it was to them he gave the wicked counsel, to draw Israel into fornication, and so into idolatry, and thereby bring the curse of God upon them; which advice they communicated to the Moabites, and both were concerned in putting it into execution; see Numbers 22:4.
l T. Bab. Bava Kama, fol. 38. 2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 25:17. Vex the Midianites, &c. — See this order fulfilled, Numbers 31:1-20. Twelve thousand Israelites attacked the Midianites, destroyed all their cities, slew their five kings, every male, and every grown up woman, and took all their spoils.
