Numbers 25:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the Lord before the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- all the heads
- Numbers 25:14, 15, 18; Exodus 18:25; Deuteronomy 4:3; Joshua 22:17; Joshua 23:2
- and hang
- Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the Samaritan and Hebrew texts must be united to make the sense of this verse complete: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto all the heads of the people; and let them slay the men that were joined to Baal-peor; and hang them up before the Lord, against the sun," etc.
- Deuteronomy 13:6–9, 13, 15; Deuteronomy 21:23; 2 Samuel 21:6, 9; Esther 7:9, 10
- that the fierce
- Numbers 25:11; Deuteronomy 13:17; Joshua 7:25, 26; Psalm 85:3, 4; Jonah 3:9