Baal -Peor. NUMB ERS XXV« Pilirlehas z;.ale> 161, a Nd Ifrael abode in Shittim, and the A people began to commitwhoredome a with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the facrifices of their gods and the people did eat, and bowed themfelves downe to their gods. 3 And Ifrael was joyned to Baal-Peor,andthe anger ofJehovab was kindled againft Ifrael. 4 And Jehovah fpake unto Mofes, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before Jehovah, againfl the Sunne, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may be turned 5 away from 1Gae1. And Moles Paid unto the Judges of Ifrael , Slay yee every man his men that were joyned unto Baal -Peor. 6 And behold , a man of the fonnes of Ifrael came, and brought neere unto his .bre- thren a Midianiteffe , in the eyes of Mofes, and in the eyes of all the congregation of the fonnes of Ifrael : and they were weeping at the doore of the Tent of the congrega- 7 tion. And Phinehas the fonne of Eleazar, the bonne of Aaron the Prieft,faw it; and he tote up . from amongft the Congregation, 8 and Cooke a Javelin in his hand. And hee went in after the man of Ifrael,into thetent, and thruft both of them thorow,the man of Ifrael, and the woman, thorow her belly; and the plague was flayed from the fons of 9 Ifrael. And thofe that died in the plague, were foute and twenty thoufand. fl fl fl to And Jehovah fpake unto Mofes, raying; t 1 Phinehas the Tonne of Eleazar, the bonne of Aaron the Prieft , bath turned my wrath a- way from the 'bones of Ifrael, whiles hee was zealouswith my zealeamong them,that I confumed not the fonnes of Ifrael in my rz zeale. Therefore fay, Behold I give unto 13 him my covenant of peace. And there (ball be to him, and to his feedafter him, the co- venant oran everlafling Priefthood,becaure hee was zealous for his God; and made at- t4 onement for the fons of Ifrael. And the name of the man of Ifrael,that roar finitten, that was fmitten With the Midianiteffe, was Zimri , the Tonne of Salu, a Prince of a fa- t5 thers houfe, of the Simeonites. And the name of the woman, the Midianiteffe that was fmitten, was Cozbi the daughter of Zur,he was an head of nations, of a fathers houfe of Midian. 16 And Jehovah fpake unto Mofes, Paying ; 17 Vex thou the Midianifes, and Imite yee them. For they vex you with their wiles, 18 wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Coz- bi, the daughter of a Prince ofMidián their filler, which was fmitten in the day of the plague, for Peors fake. Annotations. Bode in Sbirtimj a place in the wildernefie, in the plaines of Moab, neere Iordan, called A- bel Shittim, in Nnm33.48,49. In this place *al did fit,or abide, until after Males death; and from thence Iofna removed them to Iordan, where they paired over to Gill s1, PA. 2.1. & 3.5. Wherefore God after willed the people to remember the things that befell unto them, from Shittim to Gil- gal , that they might Boon' the righteonfnef of the Lord, Mic. 6. ç. And the Hillory now following fheweth, how when Balak, the Princes of Moab and Midian, and Bolaam their Prophet, had plot- ted and praâifed with all their art and might,to withdraw Gods favour & biding from his peo- ple, but prevailed nothing; the Prophet gave Ba- lak,and the Midianites counfell to put a Hum- bling- blocke before the Ifraelites, to fee if they couldwithdraw the people from the love, feare, and obedience of the Lord their God, that Ifrael finning,might fall and bring themfelves into the curfe,(which Balaam could not bring upon them) and fo perifla. By this wicked counfell they pre- vailed againftmany, to the death of z 4.thoulànd Ifraelites : but the hate and body of the Church was by Gods grace trill preferved,thewicked be- ing taken away by his judgement. the people] fome of the people of Ifrael; for they that fell to this wíckedneffe, did all perifh ; but they that cleaved to the Lord, remainedalive, Deut.4. 3,4. to commit whoredome] or, so commit fornication; which the Chaldee expoundeth, roam (orgoe a- firay)after the daughter; of Moab; msderilanding al- fo, the daughters of Midian, as appeareth by v. 6. 17, 18. This evil! they fell into , by the wicked counfell and doitcine of Balaam,. who taught Ba-. lak to cart a humbling- blacke before the fames of If- rael , to eat things facrificed to Idols , and to commit fornication, Revel. z. r 4. So, Mores likewife faith, Behold theft (women) caufed the fons of Ifrael, through the word of Balaam, to commit trefpaff againft leha- vabin the matter of Peor,Numb. 31.s6. That hy- pocrite who had fo oftep blefled I/iael, and pro- nounced tliofe accnrfedwhich curled them, who had heard and uttered the oracles of God, had his eyes opened, had efcaped the fword of the Angell, &c. to the end that he Ihould not fpeake or doe any thing but what the Lord comman- ded : yet after all this, hee was the Author of this mifchiefe; that it might appeare how evil men and f-dncers was trorfe and worfe , deceiving, and being deceived, a Timotliie 3.13. and that men might beware offalfe Prophets , which come in O a o 0 3 Cheeps /Iiw ,nniaWn.,..,,.....i Aiwg.1.0.~11Wk
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