Act Advice Assembly Balaam Balaam's Behold Break Cause Caused Commit Company Congregation Counsel Disease Faith Followed Israelites Israel's Lord's Matter Moved Peor Pe'or Plague Question Revolt Sin Sons Struck Treacherously Trespass Turning
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD {f} in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
(f) For worshipping of Peor.
31:13-18 The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The female children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, would not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the hatefulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The women and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for slaves, a custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin, children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents are punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin, full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ.
Act Advice Assembly Balaam Break Cause Caused Children Commit Company Congregation Counsel Disease Israel Israelites Israel's Lord's Matter Means Moved Ones Peor Pe'or Plague Question Revolt Sin Struck Treacherously Trespass Turning Word
Act Advice Assembly Balaam Break Cause Caused Children Commit Company Congregation Counsel Disease Israel Israelites Israel's Lord's Matter Means Moved Ones Peor Pe'or Plague Question Revolt Sin Struck Treacherously Trespass Turning Word
