Numbers 25:8 (BSB)

followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

From Numbers 25. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 25:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 25:6-15: Here is a remarkable contest between wickedness and righteousness, which shall be most bold and resolute; and righteousness carries the day, as no doubt it will at last. I. Never was vice more daring than it was in Zimri, a prince of a chief house in the tribe of Simeon.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 25:8: And he went after the man of Israel into the tent,.... Into which he went with his harlot; the word here used is different from what is commonly used for a tent: Aben Ezra observes that in the Kedarene or Arabic language there is a word near to it, which Bochart, putting the article "al" to it, says (a), is "alkobba", from whence is the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 25:8: the plague--some sudden and widespread mortality.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 25:8: Num 25:8 Through this judgment, which was executed by Phinehas with holy zeal upon the daring sinners, the plague was restrained, so that it came to an end. The example which Phinehas had made of these sinners was an act of intercession, by which the high priest appeased the wrath of God, and averted the judgment of destruction from the whole congregation (“he was zealous...