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29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. …
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. …
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-33)This is an abridgment of the history of Israel’s provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor. 10:5); for these things were written for our admonition , that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them. I. The cause of their sin was disregard to the works and…
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