all the heads: Numbers 25:14-15, Numbers 25:18; Exodus 18:25; Deuteronomy 4:3; Joshua 22:17, Joshua 23:2
and hang: Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the Samaritan and Hebrew Texts must be united to make the sense of this verse complete: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto all the heads of the people; and let them slay the men that were joined to Baal-peor; and hang them up before the Lord, against the sun," etc. Deuteronomy 13:6-9, Deuteronomy 13:13, Deuteronomy 13:15, Deuteronomy 21:23; 2 Samuel 21:6, 2 Samuel 21:9; Esther 7:9-10
that the fierce: Numbers 25:11; Deuteronomy 13:17; Joshua 7:25-26; Psalms 85:3-4; Jonah 3:9