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Numbers 25:18

in Numbers 25

For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.

KJV

For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

This verse in Numbers 25

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Vex the Midianites, and smite them

on Numbers 25:17-18

The war is ordered against Midian while verse 1 named the daughters of Moab, and verse 18 gives the ground as the wiles by which they beguiled Israel in the matter of Peor. Moab is handled another way, since Deuteronomy 23:3-6 shuts the Moabite out of the congregation and names the hiring of Balaam in the same breath. The order given here is carried out in Numbers 31, and verse 16 of that chapter is where the counsel is finally traced to Balaam.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

For they vex you with their wiles,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Whatever draws us to sin should be a vexation to us, as a thorn in the flesh. The mischief which the Midianites did to Israel by enticing them to whoredom must be remembered and punished with as much severity as that which the Amalekites did in fighting with them when they came out of Egypt, Exod. xvii.

The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • צֹרְרִ֥ים[are] opposers

    tzorerimH688754 times

  • הֵם֙they

    hemH1992553 times

  • לָכֶ֔ם<to> <the> you

    lakhem

  • בְּנִכְלֵיהֶ֛םby deceitfulness<es> their

    benikhleihemH5231

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • נִכְּל֥וּthey have dealt deceptively

    nikeluH5230

  • לָכֶ֖םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • דְּבַר־[the] matter of

    devar-H16971440 times

  • פְּע֑וֹרPeor

    peorH64655 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H59215755 times

  • דְּבַ֞ר[the] matter of

    devarH16971440 times

  • כָּזְבִּ֨יCozbi

    kazebiH3579

  • בַת־[the] daughter of

    vat-H1323588 times

  • נְשִׂ֤יא[the] leader of

    nesi'H5387134 times

  • מִדְיָן֙Midian

    midyanH408059 times

  • אֲחֹתָ֔םsister their

    ʾachotamH269114 times

  • הַמֻּכָּ֥הwho was struck down

    hamukahH5221499 times

  • בְיוֹם־on [the] day of

    veyom-H31172304 times

  • הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הthe plague

    hamagefahH404625 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • דְּבַר־[the] matter of

    devar-H16971440 times

  • פְּעֽוֹר׃Peor

    peorH64655 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 11:3

    I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

    it leads to

    • Colossians 2:8

      See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

    • Galatians 1:6

      I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

    • Ephesians 4:14

      Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

    • 1 John 4:1

      Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

    • Colossians 2:4

      I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

  • Through

    Revelation 2:14

    But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 31:16

      “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.

    • 2 Peter 2:15

      They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

  • Through

    Genesis 3:13

    Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 11:3

      I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.