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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 25
Israelites who worship false gods are slain—Phinehas slays
adulterers and stays plague—Israel commanded to vex the Midianites who
had bequiled them.
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1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to
commit awhoredom with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they acalled the people unto
the bsacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and
bowed down to their gods.
3 And Israel joined himself unto
aBaal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Israel.
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1a
Lev. 10:1 (1-2)
2a
Heb. 9:12 (7, 12, 24-25);
Heb. 10:19 (19-22)
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c
Ex. 25:22;
Ex. 29:42 (42-43);
Ex. 40:34 (34-35);
D&C 97:16 (15-17);
D&C 109:5 (5, 12-13);
Abr. 2:19 (19-20)
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4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the
aheads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD
bagainst the sun, that the cfierce anger
of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel,
aSlay ye every one his men that were joined unto
bBaal-peor.
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6 ¶ And, behold, one of the children of Israel came
and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of
Mosesa, and
in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who
were weeping before the door of the
atabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when aPhinehas, the son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among
the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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6a brought unto his brethren a Midianitish
woman in the sight of Moses Many today do dare to mock before the
prophets of God, standing at and before the temple gates, brassishly flaunting
their sinful positions and taunting the true worshipping saint of the Lord's
Church today. How long will the Lord endure? How long before the justice of
God will weigh upon them. They mock at the standards and the positions of the
Church of God demanding their self proclaimed 'rights', not realizing that
the 'right' which they call upon their own heads of recompence for violating
in sin the angency choice for wickedness does but justly preclude God's wrath
to be brought down upon them. The willful faunting of wickness before the
authorized servants of God and Heaven will bring upon those of the world the
just destructions which will attend the Lord's Second Coming as the earth must
be cleansed of sin and wickedness in order to be acceptable in his presence.
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10 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was
zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in
my ajealousy.
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12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my
acovenant of peace:
13 And he shall have it, and his
aseed after him, even the bcovenant
of an everlasting cpriesthood; because he was
dzealous for his God, and made an
eatonement for the children of Israel.
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14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain,
even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the
son of Salu, aa prince of a chief house among the
Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
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16 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and asmite
them:
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 afor Peor's sake.
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