Numbers 25:9

And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

In Context

8and he went after the man of Israel into the tent-chamber, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. And the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

10And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron had made.

Numbers 16:49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides them that had died because of the matter of Korah.

Numbers 26:1And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-Peor; for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you;

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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 →

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