Numbers 25:9
And there were slain twenty-four thousand men.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 32:35Therefore, the Lord struck the people for the guilt of the calf, which Aaron had made.
Numbers 16:49But the number of those who were struck down was fourteen thousand men, and seven hundred, aside from those who had perished in the sedition of Korah.
Numbers 26:1After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses, and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest:
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord has done against Baal-peor, in what manner he has crushed all of his worshippers from among you.
1 Corinthians 10:8And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on 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 →