Genesis 25:2

25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Genesis 25:4

25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants ¹  of Keturah.

Numbers 22:4

22:4 So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “Now this mass of people ²  will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.

Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ³  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ⁴  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ⁵  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ⁶  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 25:14

25:14 Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed – the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman – was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan ⁷  of the Simeonites.

Numbers 25:18

25:18 because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived ⁸  you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, ⁹  their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”

[25:4]  ¹ tn Or “sons.”

[22:4]  ² tn The word is simply “company,” but in the context he must mean a vast company – a horde of people.

[25:6]  ³ tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.

[25:6]  ⁴ tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

[25:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

[25:6]  ⁶ tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.

[25:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “a father’s house.” So also in v. 15.

[25:18]  ⁸ tn This is the same word as that translated “treachery.”

[25:18]  ⁹ sn Cozbi’s father, Zur, was one of five Midianite kings who eventually succumbed to Israel (Num 31:8). When the text gives the name and family of a woman, it is asserting that she is important, at least for social reasons, among her people.