اعداد 25:6

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6 و اینك‌ مردی‌ از بنی‌اسرائیل‌ آمده‌، زن‌مدیانی‌ای‌ را در نظر موسی‌ و در نظر تمامی‌ جماعت‌ بنی‌اسرائیل‌ نزد برادران‌ خود آورد، و ایشان‌ به‌ دروازۀ خیمه‌ اجتماع‌ گریه‌ می‌كردند.

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a Midianitish: Numbers 25:14, Numbers 25:15, Numbers 22:4, Numbers 31:2, Numbers 31:9-16

in the sight of Moses: Numbers 15:30, Numbers 15:31, Deuteronomy 29:19-21, Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 36:23, Jeremiah 42:15-18, Jeremiah 43:4-7, Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:17, 2 Peter 2:13-15, Jude 1:13

weeping: Judges 2:4, Ezra 9:1-4, Ezra 10:6-9, Isaiah 22:12, Ezekiel 9:4-6, Joel 2:17

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:22 - went in 1 Kings 11:18 - Midian 2 Kings 22:19 - wept 1 Chronicles 1:32 - Midian 1 Chronicles 6:4 - Phinehas Psalms 94:16 - rise up Psalms 106:30 - General Proverbs 7:13 - she Isaiah 57:5 - Enflaming Acts 17:16 - his spirit 1 Corinthians 5:2 - mourned 2 Corinthians 11:29 - and I burn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And, behold, one of the children of Israel came,.... From one of the cities of Moab or Midian, the latter rather, by what follows; where he had been, very probably, to an idolatrous feast, and had eaten of the sacrifices, and worshipped idols, and committed fornication with the daughters of the land; and not content with indulging himself with those impurities at a distance and where he was less known:

brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman; into his father's family, into a tent where his brethren dwelt:

in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel; in the most open and undisguised manner, into the midst of the camp, passing by Moses, and a great number of the people, who were gathered together on this solemn occasion, to seek the Lord, and humble themselves before him:

who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; the place where the people used to assemble together for religious exercises; here they were weeping and mourning for the sins and abominations that were committed among them, and on account of the punishment inflicted on many of them, by the hand of the civil magistrate, and because of the plague that was broke out upon them, from an angry God; by which it appears, that though there were many who had fallen into those foul sins, yet there were a great number which were not defiled with them, and sighed and cried for the abominations in the midst of them: and because the fact here recorded was such an amazing piece of impudence, the word "behold" is prefixed to the account of it, it being done in such a public, bold, and audacious manner, and at such a time, when so many had been hanged up for it, and the plague of God was broke out among the people on account of it, and good men were bewailing the sin, and the punishment of it; and if this was on a sabbath day, as the Samaritan Chronicle x relates, it was a further aggravation of it.

x Apud Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. c. 8. p. 448.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A Midianite woman - literally, “the Midianite woman,” the particular one by whom he had been enticed (compare Numbers 25:15 and Numbers 31:18). Her high rank proves that Zimri had not fallen in with her by mere chance, but had been deliberately singled out by the Midianites as one whom they must at any price lead astray.

Weeping before the door of the tabernacle - The plague Numbers 25:9 had already broken out among the people: and the more God-fearing had assembled at the door of the tabernacle of God (compare the marginal reference.) to intercede for mercy, when Zimri committed the fresh and public outrage just described.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 25:6. One of the children of Israel — Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief family in the tribe of Simeon, Numbers 25:14, brought a Midianitish woman, Cozbi, daughter of Zur, head over a people of one of the chief families in Midian, Numbers 25:15. The condition of these two persons plainly proves it to have been a matrimonial alliance, the one was a prince, the other a princess; therefore I must conclude that fornication or whoredom, in the common sense of the word, was not practised on this occasion. The matter was bad enough, as the marriage was in flat opposition to the law of God; and we need not make it worse by representing the woman as a common prostitute, as the Vulgate and several others have done. In such a case this is absolutely inadmissible. Josephus positively says that Zimri had married Cozbi, Antiq., 1. iv., cap. 6; and if he had not said so, still the thing is nearly self-evident. Numbers 24:25; Numbers 24:25.

The children of Israel, who were weeping — This aggravated the crime, because the people were then in a state of great humiliation, because of the late impure and illegal transactions.