Passage Research
Numbers 25 — Sermon Preparation
Israelite men join the Moabites in sexual immorality and idol worship at Baal-peor; a plague kills twenty-four thousand until Phinehas acts decisively. Below is a research summary for Numbers 25, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 19
- verses
- 232 / 108
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Numbers 25 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִדְיָנִי | Midyânîy | H4084 | 4 | Midjanite |
| מַגֵּפָה | maggêphâh | H4046 | 4 | pestilence, defeat |
| נָכָה | nâkâh | H5221 | 5 | strike |
| מֹשֶׁה | Môsheh | H4872 | 5 | Mosheh |
| כֹּזְבִי | Kôzᵉbîy | H3579 | 2 | Cozbi |
| פְּעוֹר | Pᵉʻôwr | H6465 | 2 | Peör |
| צָמַד | tsâmad | H6775 | 2 | link, gird |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 25, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Israel, having escaped the curse of Balaam, here sustains a great deal of damage and reproach by the counsel of Balaam, who, it seems, before he left Balak, put him into a more effectual way than that which Balak thought of to separate between the Israelites and their God. "The Lord will not be prevailed with by Balaam's charms to ruin them; try if they will not be prevailed with by the charms of the daughters of Moab to ruin themselves." None are more fatally bewitched than those that are bewitched by their own lusts. Here is, I. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 1 (Genesis to Deuteronomy), on Numbers 25:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Moab 1— Num 25:1
- Shittim— Num 25:1
- Midian— Num 25:15
- Peor— Num 25:18
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