FALSE Acted Adversaries Affair Beguiled Causing Chief Cozbi Danger Daughter Death Deceived Disease Distress Enemies Frauds Fraudulently Harass Harassed Hostile Killed Leader Matter Midian Mid'ian Midianite Peor Pe'or Peor's Plague Prince Question Result Sake Sin Sister Slain Smitten Tricks Vex Wherewith Wiles
25:18 For they vex you with their {h} 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 for Peor's sake.
(h) Causing you to commit both corporal and spiritual fornication by Balaam's counsel, Nu 31:16, Re 2:14.
25:18 With their wiles - For under pretence of kindred and friendship and leagues, which they offered to them, instead of that war which the Israelites expected, they sought only an opportunity to insinuate themselves into their familiarity, and execute their hellish plot of bringing that curse upon the Israelites, which they had in vain attempted to bring another way.
25:16-18 We read not that any Midianites died of the plague; God punished them with the sword of an enemy, not with the rod of a father. We must set ourselves against whatever is an occasion of sin to us, Mt 5:29,30. Whatever draws us to sin, should be a vexation to us, as a thorn in the flesh. And none will be more surely and severely punished than those who, after Satan's example, and with his subtlety, tempt others to sin.
Account Acted Adversaries Affair Beguiled Causing Chief Cozbi Danger Daughter Death Deceived Distress Harass Hostile Killed Leader Matter Midian Mid'ian Midianite Peor Pe'or Plague Prince Sake Sin Sister Slain Time Treated Tricks Vex Ways Wherewith Wiles
Account Acted Adversaries Affair Beguiled Causing Chief Cozbi Danger Daughter Death Deceived Distress Harass Hostile Killed Leader Matter Midian Mid'ian Midianite Peor Pe'or Plague Prince Sake Sin Sister Slain Time Treated Tricks Vex Ways Wherewith Wiles
