Numbers 25:4

said. See note on Numbers 3:40 .

heads: i.e. chiefs or princes of the People. The number not stated here, but must have been 1,000, and included in the 24,000 of Numbers 25:9 , and excluded in 1 Corinthians 10:8 . The 23,000 mentioned in 1 Corinthians 10:8 "fell in one day": the day of the plague, verses: Numbers 25:9 , Numbers 25:18 . And those who were hanged prior to that (verses: Numbers 25:4 , Numbers 25:5 ) are not included.

hang them up: i.e. impaled or nailed to a stake, as in crucifixion (Vulg, renders it "crucify", which means the same thing).