Numbers 25:9
But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 32:35And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.
Numbers 16:49Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.
Numbers 26:1Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.
1 Corinthians 10:8Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 25:7-16
The Zeal of Phinehas. ( b. c. 1452.) 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both… Read the whole commentary →