Numbers 25:18
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.
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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…
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