Bilangan 25:4
Konteks25:4 The Lord said to Moses, “Arrest all the leaders 1 of the people, and hang them up 2 before the Lord in broad daylight, 3 so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.”
Bilangan 25:2
Konteks25:2 These women invited 4 the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 5
1 Tawarikh 1:8
Konteks1:8 The sons of Ham:
Cush, Mizraim, 6 Put, and Canaan.
Ezra 10:14
Konteks10:14 Let our leaders take steps 7 on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”
[25:4] 1 sn The meaning must be the leaders behind the apostasy, for they would now be arrested. They were responsible for the tribes’ conformity to the Law, but here they had not only failed in their duty, but had participated. The leaders were executed; the rest of the guilty died by the plague.
[25:4] 2 sn The leaders who were guilty were commanded by God to be publicly exposed by hanging, probably a reference to impaling, but possibly some other form of harsh punishment. The point was that the swaying of their executed bodies would be a startling warning for any who so blatantly set the Law aside and indulged in apostasy through pagan sexual orgies.
[25:4] 3 tn Heb “in the sun.” This means in broad daylight.
[25:2] 4 tn The verb simply says “they called,” but it is a feminine plural. And so the women who engaged in immoral acts with Hebrew men invited them to their temple ritual.
[25:2] 5 sn What Israel experienced here was some of the debased ritual practices of the Canaanite people. The act of prostrating themselves before the pagan deities was probably participation in a fertility ritual, nothing short of cultic prostitution. This was a blatant disregard of the covenant and the Law. If something were not done, the nation would have destroyed itself.
