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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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…
God had punished the Israelites for their sin with a plague; as a Father he corrected his own children with a rod. But we read not that any of the Midianites died of the plague; God took another…
are an editorial note. The compiler who placed side by side the two narratives in Num 25:1-15 here combines them in such a way as to represent the Midianitesas responsible for tempting Israel in both…