Numbers 25:18

“For they vex you with their wiles, etc.] Not with wars, but with wiles, with cunning stratagems, and artful methods to draw them into sin, that thereby they might be exposed to the wrath of God: wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor; the idol Peor, that is, Baalpeor; which seems to countenance the notion that Peor was the name of a man, some great personage, who was deified after his death; now the Midianites beguiled the Israelites, by sending their daughters among them, with whom they committed fornication, and by whom they were inveigled to worship the idol Peor: and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister; their countrywoman, as it was…”

“they vex you with their wiles--Instead of open war, they plot insidious ways of accomplishing your ruin by idolatry and corruption. their sister--their countrywoman. Next: Numbers Chapter 26”

“With their wiles - For under pretence of kindred and friendship and leagues, which they offered to them, instead of that war which the Israelites expected, they sought only an opportunity to insinuate themselves into their familiarity, and execute their hellish plot of bringing that curse upon the Israelites, which they had in vain attempted to bring another way. Next: Numbers Chapter 26”

“vex you: Num 31:15, Num 31:16; Gen 26:10; Exo 32:21, Exo 32:35; Rev 2:14 beguiled: Gen 3:13; Co2 11:3; Pe2 2:14, Pe2 2:15, Pe2 2:18 which: Num 25:8 Next: Numbers Chapter 26”