Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment ... - Inflicted summary punishment upon a principal offender ([Reference Numbers 25:7…

These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with the discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so…

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment
When none else would, he rose up in great zeal for the Lord of hosts; …

Those who will not wait for God's counsel will justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even …