Numbers 25:17
“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.
Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
“Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
Vex the Midianites, and smite them;
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- Numbers 25:17
- Balaam's counsel seems to have been first given to Balak, king of Moab; but probably the Midianitish women, especially of the higher ranks, as Cozbi was, were the principal tempters; and the nation of Midian seems to have come into the execrable measure more generally and heartily than that of Moab: they were therefore first selected to be made examples of, for a warning to the Moabites, who were spared at this time.
- Numbers 31:2; Revelation 18:6