Psalms 78:30

“Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment, etc.] When none else would, he rose up in great zeal for the Lord of hosts; and took on him the work of a civil magistrate, and slew two persons of noble birth in the very act of fornication. The Targum is, “he prayed” and so the Syriac version “he interceded with the Lord, that the plague might stop.” This he might do, as well as the other, though it is not elsewhere recorded, and in which he succeeded: but in the Talmud f1530 it is observed that it is not said llpty (that is, “he prayed”), but llpy, from whence may be learned, if it is proper to say so, that he executed judgments with his Maker. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render…”

“They were not estranged from their lust - literally, “They were not made strangers to;” that is, in regard to their lusts or desires they were not in the condition of “foreigners” or aliens; they were not separated from them. The word “lusts” here means “desires, wishes.” It is not used here in the restricted sense in which it is now with us. The reference is to their desire for food different from manna - for flesh; and the idea is, that they did not restrain their intense desire even when it should have been fully satisfied. They indulged to excess, and the consequence was that many of them perished. But while their meat was yet in their mouths - Even while they were eating, and were…”

“But: Num 11:33, Num 11:34, Num 22:20-22; Pro 1:32; Luk 16:19-23 Psalms 78:31”