Numbers 25:18

Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

In Context

17Let the Madianites find you enemies, and slay you them:

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Cross References

Genesis 3:13And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

Exodus 32:21And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?

Numbers 31:15Said: Why have you saved the women?

2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Peter 2:18For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Matthew Henry on Numbers 25:17-18

16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. God had punished the Israelites for their sin with a plague; as a Father he corrected his own children with a rod. But we read not that any of the Midianites died of the plague; God took another course with… Read the whole commentary →

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