Numbers 25:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

Numbers 25:17 —

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Revelation 18:6
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Numbers 31:1-3
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-18)

God had punished the Israelites for their sin with a plague; as a Father he corrected his own children with a rod. But we read not that any of the Midianites died of the plague; God took another course with them, and punished them with the sword of an enemy, not with the rod of a father. 1. Moses, though the meekest man, and far from a spirit of revenge, is ordered to vex the Midianites and smite…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Vex the Midianites, and smite them--They seem to have been the most guilty parties. (Compare Nu 22:4; 31:8).