Psalm 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their
inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
a. NLT: They
angered the LORD with all these things, so a
plague broke out among them.
b. NIV: they
aroused the LORD’s anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among
them.
c. Young’s Literal
Translations: And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh
forth upon them,
d. Amplified Bible:
Thus they provoked the Lord to anger with their practices, and a plague broke
out among them.
e. Septuagint: and
destruction, was multiplied among them.
f. Stone Edition
Torah/Writings/Prophets: And they angered [Him] with their behavior, and a plague
broke out among them.
1. “Thus they provoked him to anger with their
inventions…”
a. provoked to
anger [3707 * ka’ac][Strong: primitive root; to trouble; by implication, to
grieve, rage, be indignant:--be angry, be grieved, take indignation, provoke
(to anger, unto wrath), have sorrow, vex, be wroth.]
b. inventions [4611
* ma’alal][Strong: an act (good or bad):--doing, endeavour, invention, work.][Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon: deed,
practice, practice (usually bad), deeds, acts.]
1). The inventions, deeds or acts involved a
number of idolatrous behaviors including sexual intercourse.
a). Numbers 25:1-8 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people
began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
25:2 And they called the people unto the
sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor:
and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
25:4 And the Lord said unto Moses,
Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before
the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of
the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of
Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
25:6 And, behold, one of the children of
Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of
Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who
were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation,
and took a javelin in his hand;
25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into
the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman
through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
2. “…and the plague brake in upon them.”
a. plague [4046 * maggephah][Strong: a
pestilence; by analogy, defeat:--(X be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.]
b. brake [6555 * parats][Strong: a primitive
root; to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and
figurative):--X abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in,
up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open,
press, scatter, urge.]
c. There were two causes of death to Israelites
in this event. One thousand were slain by the judges of the particular tribes,
while most were slain by the plague that also broke out because of the sin. Twenty
three died because of the plague and one thousand were slain by the leaders of
Israel. These amounts are arrived at from comparing the two texts from Numbers
and 1 Corinthians.
1). Numbers 25:3-9 And Israel joined himself
unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
25:4 And the Lord said unto Moses,
Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against
the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from
Israel.
25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of
Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
25:6 And, behold, one of the children of
Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of
Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who
were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation,
and took a javelin in his hand;
25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into
the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman
through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
25:9And those that died in the plague were
twenty and four thousand.
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