Numbers 25:8

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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.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 8. Endeavouring, by a change of state, to search out and destroy them in himself, and this he accomplishes both as to thought and affection, in the course of the conflict; and thus the church is delivered from the consequences of profane worship, which would involve the complete destruction of remains.