17Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
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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.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …
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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…
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